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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

De Cost Smith Collection

 Collection — Huntington box 59
Identifier: 9174
Abstract Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans,...
Dates: 1880-1943.

Testimony of Indian school and reservation superintendents in regard to a law and order bill

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9060
Scope and content Typed transcripts of feedback from agency and district superintendents eliciting their response to extending criminal jurisdiction to reservations. Folder one includes copies of two bills, one extending State laws to reservations dated April 18, 1929, the other regarding extending federal civil and criminal laws to reservations, dated January 8, 1930. Also a copy of the questionnaire that was sent to the superintendents and a summary of the responses. Folders two and three are the responses,...
Dates: 1930.

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Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation (Idaho). 1
Colorado River Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.). 1
Cree Indians. 1
Crow Agency (Mont.). 1
Crow Indians. 1