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President Roosevelt has been informed that Luther Sage Kelly might accept a Native American agency and Roosevelt favors his appointment.
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1902-05-05
President Roosevelt is familiar with the situation at Yellowstone National Park and wants sheep kept out. Cattle and horses can continue to graze in reasonable numbers.
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1902-05-07
The enclosed map has an area marked off that President Roosevelt would like to make a forest reserve.
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1902-04-30
President Roosevelt recommends reappointing Mr. Barber.
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1902-05-01
President Roosevelt is favorable to the “Alaska forest reservation scheme.”
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1902-04-15
Roosevelt’s recommendations for several appointments in Montana.
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1902-04-18
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from George Kennan regarding the Standing Rock Agency. Roosevelt wants action taken on Kennan’s statements and suggests sending George Bird Grinnell to investigate. Until such time as that might be possible, he asks that Kennan’s letter be sent to the inspector at Standing Rock, requesting a full report.
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1902-04-22
Roosevelt has seen strong testimony for Mr. Bush and suggests they be careful about displacing him.
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1902-04-01
President Roosevelt sends his sympathy at the death of Ethan Allen Hitchcock’s brother.
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1902-03-18
Booker T. Washington has sent three recommendations for the position of register in Arkansas. President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to have the agents of his department examine each man’s history and determine who should be appointed to replace the unfit incumbent.
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1902-03-21
President Roosevelt has signed legislation to create a permanent Census Bureau and discusses how the Census office will be reorganized according to the legislation in July of 1902.
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1902-03-06
President Roosevelt sends his sympathy for the “affliction” Hitchcock is undergoing.
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1902-03-15
President Roosevelt introduces John Nicholas Simpson to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. Simpson has new thoughts regarding cattle leasing on the Comanche and Kiowa reservations.
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1902-02-20
President Roosevelt has been discussing potential land leases at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and is concerned that the leases will become “more than temporary expedients.” Roosevelt’s ultimate goal is to have Native Americans be “productive occupiers of their own lands.”
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1902-01-30
President Roosevelt would like supervisors in the Forest Reserve to be able to select their own employees. He would like this system tested by Captain Bullock of the Black Hills reserve in South Dakota.
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1902-01-25
President Roosevelt calls for the appointment of Isaac Taft Stoddard as secretary of Arizona Territory. Roosevelt stresses that Stoddard must be instructed to follow the directions of the Attorney General.
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1901-12-12
President Roosevelt believes that Archbishop John J. Keane should sit on the Board of Indian Commissioners. In a handwritten note, President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock what he thinks of the recommendation.
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1901-11-20
Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt has received mixed opinions of Governor Otero, including some accusations of impropriety. Roosevelt would like the matter “carefully investigated.”
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1901-11-14
Register Getchell was removed but Receiver Smock was retained at the Buffalo, Wyoming, office. President Roosevelt has been informed that Smock has performed poorly and suggests that Smock should also be removed.
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1901-11-11
President Roosevelt questions three policies regarding land use on a forest reserve and requests that investigations be made into those policies and a separate allegation of discrimination.
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1901-11-06