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National Archives Microfilm Publications National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration W a S H I N G NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON. 1971 RICHARD NIXON President of the United States ROBERT L. KUNZIG Administrator of General Services JAMES B. RHOADS Archivist of the United States The records reproduced in the microfilm publication are from Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Record Group 75 in the National Archives Note: Reprint of pamphlet issued in SPECIAL FILES OF THE OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 1807-1901* On the 85 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced the Special Files of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, 1807-190U. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, usually known as the Office of Indian Affairs until 191*7, was established within the War Department in 182^4. From 1789 to l82l* Indian af- fairs were administered in the Office of the Secretary of War. In 18^9 "the Office of Indian Affairs was transferred to the Department of the Interior, where it has remained. The Special Files consist of correspondence, reports, accounts, affidavits, and other records that were brought together for easier reference. The records relate princi- pally to claims and investigations but include some other subjects. The claims are those of traders for goods fur- nished to Indians or the Government, of transportation con- tractors for shipping goods, of attorneys for legal fees, of other persons for services to Indians or the Government, of both Indians and v:hites for losses from depredations, of Indians for losses resulting from their removal from tte East, and of persons claiming the right to share in tribal benefits. Many of the claims were submitted in conformance with provisions of treaties between Indian tribes and the United States. The investigations, other than those of claims, were principally of the conduct of employees of the Office. There is an index of name_> and subjects fol- lowing this introduction. Most of the records in the series were withdrawn from the general incoming correspondence of the Office. But some records of special commissions transmitted to the Office when their work was completed also are included. There are some copies of letters sent by the Office and some records withdrawn from a general series of claims begun in 1877 and from a series of authorities from the Secretary of the Interior begun in 1880. The series contains 303 Special Files, numbered in order; but the records formerly in some of these files are missing. Most of the files relate to one subject, a few to several subjects. The dates are those of the records in the files, usually the date of receipt in the Office or "by a commission. The actual dates of individual documents, especially those submitted as evidence for claims, may be much earlier. The records within each file are arranged most often either by assigned claim numbers or in the usual order for incoming correspondence of the Office. Through i860 incoming correspondence was arranged by year, thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of surname or official position of writer, and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt (by date of letter until 1836). For the years 1881-1907 incoming correspondence was arranged chronologi- cally in order of receipt. Claims and authorities were also arranged in this order. Copies of letters sent were sometimes filed with pertinent letters received and at times at the end of files. Unusual arrangements of files are noted in the contents of rolls. Many documents are filed as enclosures. Sometimes, especially in the later years, letters received were re- ferred to another office (most often the Office of the Secretary of the Interior) and later returned. Usually such letters were returned to their original places in the files, but sometimes they were filed as enclosures to let- ters returning them. Often several Special Files contain closely related records; and again one set of claims is divided among several Special Files. Many cross-references to related Special Files and to other records are inserted at the beginning of files. The records here reproduced are part of the records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Related records in the same record group that have been microfilmed in- clude Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 182^-80 (Microcopy 23^): Registers of Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 182^4-80 (Microcopy 18); Let- ters Sent by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1S2U-81 (Micro- copy 21); and Report Books of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, 1838-85 (Microcopy 3^8). INDEX This index includes only names and subjects mentioned in the titles of Special Files or of particular importance in the subject matter of files. The references are to Special File numbers. There may be records dealing less particularly with the same persons and subjects in other Special Files than those cited; this is especially true of traders with claims against several tribes. Abrams children: 37 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: 6k, 260 American Fur Company: TO Arnold, Jane J-: 187 Austrian, Julius: 187 Ayres, Eli: 288 Baca, Dolores: 91 Baker, Arthur J.: 11 Ball, Capt. Edward: 2^2 Bannock Indians: 265 Barker, Benjamin B. R.: 128 Barnett, Joseph: 18 Barren & In/in: 152 Baxter, Sutcliffe: 272 Beale, Edward F.: 159 Beams Negroes: 277 Black Hawk War: 193 Bland, T- A.: 26h Bloomfield, Lot: 168, 169 Borup, Charles W.: 27 Boudinot, Elias: 53 Boudinot, Elias C.: 298 Bourassa's wife: 187 Brindle, William: 273 Brown, Elisha J.: 232, 259 Browne, J. Ross: 157, 177 Bruguier, Theophile: 13 Bryan, Joel M.: 301 Buckner, Simeon: ^1 Buffalo Creek Reservation: 67, 85 Bull Frog: 92 Butterfield, Charles or Isaac: 12^ California: 90, 126, 159, 22U, 227, 266 Cameron, Simon: l6U, l3l, 186 Campbell, John M. ano Eliza: kk Capron, Horace: 55 Ccmichael, Donald: 21k Carter, Charles M. : 250 Carter, David: ^0 Challiss, W. L. & Co.: 2j6 Cherokee Indians: 31, ^2, 1*5, 53, 59, 7^, 75, 8U, 102, 101*, 105, 125, 131, 138, 1^1, 150, 15^, 155, 158, 18**, 198, 29*1, 300, 302, 303; individual treaty claims: 2, 311, hh, 1*6, 1*8, 61, 92, 93, 91*, 1^6, 21*9; attorney claims: 1*, 83, 107, 152, 298, 301 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency: 256 Cheyenne, Wyo.: 21Q Chickasaw Indians: 10, 13*4, ll*2, 2To, 28l, 288 Chippewa Agency: 27 Chippewa Indians: lU, i»3, 51, 58, 103, 110, 117, 119, 12k, 129, 139, l^1^, 1^5, 1^7, 1^9, 156, 160, 162, 17!*, 180, 182, 183, 187, 183, 189, 196, 199, 201, 202, 20U, 208 Choctaw Indians: 25, 30, 68, 76, 78, 108, 13^, lit2, 2l6, 237, 2it5, 260, 277 Chouteau, Pierre M.: 5^- Citizen Potawatomi: 283 Civil War: 87, 125, 13!*, U2, 201 Clapp, Dexter: 225, 21*2 Clark, James: 50 Clark, 0. L.: 168, 169 Clarke, Lorenzo N«: 10 Colorow: 279 Colville Reservation: 291 Confederated Peoria: 236, 280, 295 Connelly & Co.: 91 Goody, William: 59 Corey, George W.: 219 Countryman, Horace: 275 Creek Indians: 8, 37, **0, 52, 62, 77, 89, 111, 111*, 123, 136, 11*1, 151, 207, 28U, 285, 300 Gritcher, John: 297 Crow Agency: 225, 2l*2, 253, 275 Crow Creek Agency: 2U8 Cushway, J. H., & Co.: 299 Darling, Kennedy &: 36 Davenport, la.: 235 David & Todd: 291 Day, George E. H.: 201 Delaware Indians: 56, 72, 99, 106, 118, 29^, 298 De Puy, Henry: 2h6 Dobson, John: 286 Dodge, R. K.: 22? Duvall, Rev. R. P. and Mrs- Sallie B.: 287 Eastern Cherokee: 7^> 102, 138 Eddy, J. P. & Co.: 130 Edmonds, J. W.: 1^7, lli8, 165, 179 Edwards, James: 8 Elliot, John: 18 Ellis, E. John: 283 Emory, James S.: 233 Erwin, James: 62 Erwin & Greathouse: 62 Ewing, W. G. & G. W.: 19, 101, 117, 178 Ewing, William G. & Co.: 122 Ewing Walker & Co.: 179 Ewings & Walker: 255 Falk, Moses & Lab: 17 Farrar, Margaret: 23 Fellows, Ogden &: 67, 88 Fenton, Thomas P.: 233 Ferris, Cornelius: 218 First Christian Party of Oneida: 7 Fisk, James L.: 265 Flambeau Lumber Co.: 299 Flat Belly: 95 Flathead Agency: 230 Flathead Indians: 213 Fleming, J. H.: 267 Fleming, John: l8l, 185, 190 Fletcher, Josiah: 52 Florida:' 36, 137 Forney, Jacob: 127 Fort Belknap Agency: Fort Larned: 2ll* Fort Peck Agency: Fort Smith, Ark.: 78, 153 Fort Winnebago Subagency: 82 Freedmen: 28U, 298 Fridley, Abram M.: 211 Frost, George W.: 253, 275 Gilbert, Henry C.: 188 Gill, Margaret C.: 236 Glowacki, Henry: 201 Graham, Charles: 35 Greathouse, Daniel: 62 Great Nemaha Agency: 65 Green Bay Agency: 65 Gregory, Henry E«: 2kQ Grignon, Robert: 16 Grub, Jim: 93 Guest, John R.: 278 Gunter, John and Edward: 3^ Hall, W.: 213 Hamilton, Taber &: 170 Hammond, J. H.: 2kj, 2U8, 270 Hansell, William Y.: k, 107 Harney, Gen. William S.: 2hk Harris, Arnold: 83 Hart, W. B.: 25 Harvey, Henry: 1^6 Haskell Institute: 293 Heald, Joseph G.: 2k$ Hemp: 38 Henson, Joseph: 92 Hinant, Garry: ho Hinman, Rev. Samuel D.: 269 Hogan, Moses D.: 21 Howard, George T.: 55 Hubbell, W. N.: 256 Hughes, William T.: 2^7 Hyatt, Ann: 6l Hyatt, N. B.: 6l, 7^ Indiana: 113, 165, 176, 179, 297 Indian soldiers: 26l Inkpadutah: 132 Iowa Indians: 3, 32, 118 Irwin, David: 152 Irwin, R.and A. J.: 82 Jack: 279 Jackson, LeRoy: ky J. G. Morrow (steamer): 276 J. H. Cushway & Co.: 299 Johnson, Thomas: 220 Johnston, George: 51 Johnston, John: 1^, ^3 Jones, Hiram W.: 221 Kansa (Kansas, Kaw) Indians: 99, 191, 210, 296 Kansas (State): 118, lU6, 233, 273, 287, Kaskaskia Indians: 280 Kaw Indians: See Kansa Indians Kendall, Amos and John E.: 83 Kennedy & Darling: 36 Kentuckian (steamer): hi.
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