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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, for the year 1891
Part 1 ([1891])
Contents, pp. I-VIII
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- -. / r , CON TENTS. VOLUME I. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER: Pago. A settled Indian policy .................................................. 3 Political status of the Indians ........................................... 9 Independent political communities, dependent allies................ 10 Subjects, but not citizens ...........................................11 Early legislation regarding Indians.................................. 12 Later legislation-encroachments on Indian autonomy ........... 16 Citizenship------------------.............................. 18 What does citizenship imply?-.......-..---..-----.- ..-...... 22 A precarious situation ..............................................25 Citizenship inevitable ....................-........ 26 Status of Indians in Mexican cession-.-....-.................. 26 Practical conclusions.-..................-....................36 Change of tribal relations-..........-.........--......................... 37 Indian soldiers----------------------------------------------------37 Allotment of lands-- - -- - - - --.................................... 38 Hindrances to allotment-..................................w............ 38 Early allotments .-. - -.. ........................ 40 Progress in allotments ..............--_.--.. .... ............-40 Allotments to nonreservation Indians........................... 42 Practical results of allotments.....................43 Reduction of reservations...................................... 44 Negotiations for further reductions--------------------------------45 Reservations should not be reduced too rapidly.................... 46 Commissions...........................................................47 Shoshone Commission ............._ - --.............................. 47 Pyramid Lake Commission.................................... 47 Missio,.Indian Commission.................................... 47 Puyallup Commission ...-----4...................... .............. 48 Warm Springs Commission.......................-.................... 48 Colville Commission -.----- ----------...........---- 48 Cherokee Commission------------------------------------------49 Round Valley Commission......................w.................... 49 Irrigation...............................................................50 Education ......-....................................................... 53 G row th of annual appropriations... .. . . . . . ..... 54 Table 1. Annual appropriations made by the Government since th e fiscal y ear 1 ,477 for su p p ort of In d ian schools. ..... ..... .... 54 Industrial training schools-......................... ... - 55 Table 2. Location, attendance, cost, etc., of nonreservation train- ing schools during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1891------------55 Table 3. Prospective capacity of nonreservation schools-----------56 Reservation board ing schools . ............................... 57 Table 4. Capacity and date of opening of reservation boarding schools-------------------------------------------------.... 57
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