Indians in the 1890 Census

Department of the Interior. Report on Indians Taxed and Indians not Taxed in the United States, Except Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1894.

History of the Choctaw and Chickasaw in Indian Territory

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The Choctaws, Chickasaws, Muskhogees, and Seminoles, originally one tribe in the southeastern U.S., split into four due to internal conflicts. Each established different territories, dialects, customs, and laws. Rooted in rich traditions and some form of civilization, these tribes were not primarily warlike. However, contact with white settlers led to wars, a drastic reduction in their populations, and eventual forced migrations. The Chickasaws and Choctaws, in particular, suffered displacement, disease, and wars, including the American Civil War. These experiences reshaped their societies, but they persistently sought to maintain their unique identities, cultures, and governance systems.

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Historical Outline of The Six Nations

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By Henry B. Carrington The retirement of the Indian westward within the United States has been qualified by two historical factors. The first grew out of the unlimited and conflicting sweep of British land grants, which involved subsequent conflicts of jurisdiction and corresponding compromises. The second was incidental’ to the passage of the ordinance of

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General Remarks About the Six Nations in 1890

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The state and federal courts, as the former have recognized in several instances, should recognize the 64 “Indian common law title” of occupants of reservation lands, where such lands have been improved. They should assure such titles, as well as sales, devises, and descent, through courts of surrogate or other competent tribunals, wherever local Indian

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Fort Peck Reservation

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Fort Peck Agency Report of Special Agent Jere E. Stevens on the Indians of Port Peck reservation, Port Peck agency, Montana, December 1890, and January 1891. Names of Indian tribes or parts of tribes occupying said reservations: Assinaboine, Brule, Santee, Teton, Unkpapa, and Yanktonai Sioux. The unallotted area of this reservation is 1,776,000 acres, or

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Education, Schools and Language on the Six Nations Reservations

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The pagan element, as a general rule, is opposed to education. Exceptions are sometimes found. Families with small means, unwilling to make any effort to change their condition, claim that they need their children for homework. Even when they enter them at the beginning of the term, they do not enforce their attendance. The children,

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Crow Reservation

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Crow Agency Report of Special Agent Walter Shiraw on the Indians of the Crow reservation, Crow agency, Custer County, Montana, July and August 1890. Names of Indian tribes or parts of tribes occupying said reservation:  Mountain and River Crow. The unallotted area of the Crow reservation is 1,712,960 acres, or 7,364 square miles, and was

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