Treaties, Laws, Executive Orders and Documents –

Documents –
American Indian Women - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/indian.htm - 19th-century
     commentary by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustav de Beaumont, Thomas Cather, Francesco Arese,
     Frederick Marryat
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: 18th Century Documents - the text from many documents of the era
     http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm
     http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm
     http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm
     Statutes of the United States Concerning Native Americans –
          http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/native/namenu.htm
Charles Erskine Scott Wood-The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph –
     http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs660/joseph.htm
Chief Joseph-Selected Speeches and Statements –
     http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs660/jospeak.htm
Choctaw Constitutions - http://www.uwm.edu/~mwilson/constitutions/
Constitutional Status of American Indians - ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/Americas/civil.txt - From
     the United States Commission on Civil Rights, March 1973
Dawes Act (1887) - http://ww2.csusm.edu/nadp/adawes.htm
     Allotment Data - http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/astats.htm - Alphabetically by Reservation
     The Results of the Dawes or General Allotment Act - http://ww2.csusm.edu/nadp/asubject.htm -
          Native American Documents Project
Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre (1864-1865) –
     http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm
Documents Pertaining to the Native Graves Act - http://www.cast.uark.edu/products/NAGPRA/
Early American Historical Documents - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Lindex.htm -
     1. Acquisition of Oregon, Volume One - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/AcqOfOr/v1/album1.html
          - 1911.;
     2. Acquisition of Oregon, Volume Two - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/AcqOfOr/v2/album1.html
          - 1911;
     3. Adventures on the Columbia River - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Cox/album1.html - 1832;
     4. Autobiography of Black Hawk (MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK) –
          http://www.1st-hand-history.com/BHawk/album1.html 1832;
     5. Church's Indian Wars from 1675 to 1704 - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Church/album1.html
          Thomas Church, esq. Published 1716 – 1854;
     6. Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, Volumes 1-27 – INDEX 1881-1911 –
          http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Boe/BOEindex.htm ;
     7. Executive Document 68 - Abraham Lincoln conveys documents regarding the Dakota Conflict to
          the 37th Congress - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Exdocs/ExDoc68/album1.html - 1863;
     8. Executive Document 79 - 13th Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for the year
          1881;
     9. Executive Document 196 - Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina Regarding a Resolution of the
          House February 25, 1882 relative to the lands and funds of the Eastern Band of North Carolina
          Cherokees;
     10. Indian History of the Northwest - Siwash - by J. A. Costello published 1895;
     11. Indian Tribes of the United States, vol 1 - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Drake1/album1.html
                Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1883-1884 (index at end of volume 2);
     12. Indian Tribes of the United States, vol 2 - http://www.1st-hand-history.com/Drake2/album1.html
                Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1883-1884 (index at end of this volume);
     13. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the
                case of Samuel A. Worcester vs The State of Georgia, January Term, 1832 [This is the opinion
                of which then President Andrew Jackson said "Mr. Marshall has made his ruling, let him
                enforce it." The infamous trail of tears followed shortly thereafter.];
     14. Pioneer Stories - A local history by Shirley Clayton. A history of Dillard, Oregon; the Rice
                family; the Kent family; Grant and Eva Clayton; the Burnett family biography of Andrew
                Ervin Street of Malin, Oregon. Published without copyright in 1956;
     15. Red Jacket, The Life and Times of Being the Sequel to the History of the Six Nations by William
                L. Stone, 1841;
     16. 23rd Congress, 2nd Session, Document 71 - Memorial of John Ross and Others, Representatives
                of the Cherokee nation of Indians, January 21, 1835;
     17. 28th Congress US Senate Document 229 - A report made by P. M. Butler, U.S. agent for the
                Cherokee Indians, September 30, 1843;
     18. 29th Congress US Senate Document 133 - Memorial of John Ross and Others, Representatives of
                the Cherokee nation of Indians, May 4, 1846;
     19. 55th Congress US Senate Document 61 - Statement of a Delegation of Ogalalla Sioux Regarding
                the State of Affairs at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, April 29-30, 1897;
Felix Cohen’s Handbook - http://thorpe.ou.edu/cohen.html
Indian Policy Reform: Assimilation - http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/seven/indpol.htm
     President Chester Arthur on legislation needed to dissolve "the tribal bond, which is so prominent a
     feature of savage life" (1881)
Iroquois Constitution - http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html
Legal Information Institute – Indian Laws  Cases - http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/indian.html
Native American Constitution and Law Digitalization Project - http://thorpe.ou.edu./ - Tribal constitutions
     and codes are the heart of self-government for over 500 federally recognized tribes, and are the lifeblood
     of Indian sovereignty. The University of Oklahoma Law Center Library and the National Indian Law
     Library work with tribes whose government documents appear on this web site; these tribal documents
     are either placed online with the permission of the tribes, or they are U.S. Government documents,
     rightfully in the public domain.
Native American Documents Project - http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/nadp.htm - Cal State at San Marcos:
     Professor E. Schwartz
Western Historical Manuscript Collection - http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/native.htm
Will Rogers' Case File for Enrollment in The Five Civilized Tribes –
     http://www.nara.gov/nara/EXTRA/wrdawes.html

Treaties –
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 - http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/ftlaram.htm 
     With pictures - http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/sioux.html
Treaties by Nation Native American Web Services (Nawebs) has published nearly 400 downloadable full-length treaties. Excellent resource. (BAD Link)
Treaty of  Wasco – June 25, 1855 - http://www.warmsprings.com/history/treaty/trty1855.htm
Treaty with the Cherokee - (1785) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/chr1785.htm
Treaty with the Chickasaw - (1786) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/chic1786.htm
Treaty with the Choctaw - (1786) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/choc1786.htm
Treaty with the Creeks - (1790) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/cre1790.htm
Treaty with the Shawnee - (1786) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/shaw1786.htm
Treaty with the Six Nations - [Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora] (1784) -
     http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/six1784.htm
Treaty with the Wyandot - (1785) - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/wya1785.htm

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