Chippewas of Minnesota: Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, from January 21 to March 22, 1920U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - 431 pages Considers (66) H.R. 9924, (66) H.R. 6461, (66) H.R. 12103, (66) H.R. 12972. |
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acres act of January agreement of 1889 allotments amendment appropriation approved attorney authority BALLINGER Beaulieu Cass Lake CASWELL ceded cession CHAIRMAN Chippewa country Chippewa Indians Chippewas in Minnesota commission committee contract council Court of Claims delegates diminished reservation disposed dollars ELLSWORTH ELSTON enacted entitled Fairbanks full-blood funds gentlemen Government GRAVES hearing HENDERSON hereby Indian Affairs Indian Bureau Indians of Minnesota interest Interior January 14 jurisdictional bill KELLY Lake Indian Reservation Leech Lake legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS matter McDONALD MCLAUGHLIN ment MERITT Minn Mississippi mixed bloods negotiate objection paid payment pewa President proposition question Red Lake Band Red Lake Indians Red Lake Reservation reference represent RHODES rolls schools Seal Secretary Stat statement STEENERSON thereof Thief River Falls timber tion tract Treasury treaty tribal tribe understand United White Earth Reservation word
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Page 354 - ... and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States who has voluntarily taken up, within said limits, his residence separate and apart from any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted the habits of civilized life, is hereby declared to be a citizen of the United States, and is entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citizens, whether said Indian has been or not, by birth or otherwise, a member of any tribe of Indians within the territorial limits...
Page 230 - States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner In which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof ; and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry...
Page 354 - And every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made under the provisions of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States...
Page 375 - ... as amended by the act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat. 458; 43 USC 335, 337, 338), authorize the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, to grant relief to certain classes of desert-land claimants.
Page 50 - ... occupancy thereof as such homestead ; and any conveyance of said lands so taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the same, or lien thereon, created prior to the date of such patent, shall be null and void.
Page 81 - To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section...
Page 42 - Official letters, papers, documents, and public records, or certified copies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the Government shall give...
Page 50 - States to the credit of all the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota as a permanent fund, which shall draw interest at the rate of five per...
Page 87 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 54 - Besides this, citizenship has not in all cases been made a condition precedent to the enjoyment of the right of suffrage. Thus, in Missouri, persons of foreign birth, who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, may under certain circumstances vote.