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President Roosevelt expresses concern about his son Kermit Roosevelt’s health. He mentions the Brownsville matter, the opposition from the Senate over the battleships and offers his view on Native Americans. Roosevelt is pleased that Kermit has been reading and studying, and updates Kermit on recent family activities.
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1907-01-26
President Roosevelt instructs Captain Johnson to proceed to the Uintah Agency to investigate why the Ute Indians left their reservation and the basis of their complaints.
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1907-01-21
L. B. Greene wonders if the government could purchase a portion of the Cattaraugus Reservation to develop into an Army base. He describes the area and encloses a map of a nearby trolley road and a sketch to see if Theodore Roosevelt finds the idea feasible. If so, he asks Roosevelt to forward it to the proper authorities.
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1911-09-19
This bulletin includes preliminary census data regarding Oklahoma agriculture, livestock, and Indian reservations.
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1902-07-03
President Roosevelt is worried about his son Kermit’s boils. He also writes about how Congress will vote on his big battleships. Roosevelt also mentions the poor “Tartar” tribe, saying that all they want is to live on a Sioux reservation and have the government supply them. Roosevelt closes the letter with updates on the family.
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt approves of the way Captain Harry O. Williard handled the conflict on the Navajo Reservation in a response to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp.
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1907-12-06
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock an order regarding the sale of public lands and special cases thereof. This order overrides Roosevelt’s order of January 25.
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1907-02-12
President Roosevelt disagrees with Mr. Lighton’s article concerning the opening of Indian reservations to settlement by white Americans. Roosevelt argues that people concerned with Native Americans’ best interest will support the sale of the “surplus” lands in their reservations. Lands valued at $10 per acre or more will be made available to homesteaders, while cattle ranchers will come into possession of lands worth far less. Roosevelt argues that many settlers in the Dakotas and Montana are eager to claim lands within the Indian reservations in their states.
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1904-08-11
Theodore Roosevelt asks Ethan Allen Hitchcock to allow Frank Mead to use a financial clerk during his work in the southwest and to direct the Indian agents to report to Mead as general supervisor on the condition of the tribes. These reports will include the condition of the tribes and “their proposed industrial plans.”
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1904-07-23
President Roosevelt will sign the bill if he can. The land on the Rosebud Agency has been raised from $3 to $4, which the agent, Assistant Secretary Ryan, and Commissioner Richards believe is enough.
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1904-04-21
President Roosevelt is further encouraged by Alice Robertson to reappoint J. George Wright as an Indian reservation Inspector.
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1904-04-04
President Roosevelt trusts Alice M. Robertson’s recommendation to reappoint J. George Wright as an Inspector.
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1904-04-04
President Roosevelt is concerned that a bill regarding land sales on the Chippewa Reservation encourages potential buyers to conspire and not place initial bids. Before signing, Roosevelt requests an interpretation of the bill from the Department of Justice.
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1904-02-16
President Roosevelt would like every opportunity to be given to Natalie Curtis Burlin to travel through all Native American reservations and report on all matters “pertaining to the well-being, the education, the artistic development, and the industries of the Indians.”
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1903-07-22
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 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
Assistant Secretary of the Navy informs Horatio N. Armstrong that he is not the same Roosevelt Armstrong had inquired about. Roosevelt is not able to help him secure a job with the United States Navy because his department does not have the positions he is interested in.
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1897-08-28
A supervising engineer of the United States Reclamation Service provides information on the surveying of an unnamed reservation near the La Paz Arroyo in Arizona.
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1912-05-31
Neil McLean explains to Theodore Roosevelt why he is now in Cuba. While there, he heard of someone who lived on a reservation and sold duty-free clothes for the benefit of the enlisted men. He and his friend, George E. Cox, plan to do the same and make more money than remaining a serviceman. McLean asks Theodore Roosevelt for help obtaining a permit from a government authority to build and live on the reservation. He sends a photograph of Roosevelt Road.
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1911-08-20