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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph M. Dixon

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph M. Dixon

President Roosevelt does not feel that he would be able to sign Representative Dixon’s act opening the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana for settlement because it does not adequately protect the water rights of the Blackfoot people. If Dixon withdraws the bill for now, Roosevelt promises to discuss it with him and Senator Thomas Henry Carter as soon as Congress convenes in December, and after he has received a report from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp. If the bill is passed in its current form, however, Roosevelt feels that he will have to veto it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin F. Tracy

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin F. Tracy

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Gamble

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Gamble

President Roosevelt is opposed to the House bill that would open a portion of the Rosebud Reservation in Gregory County, South Dakota. He agrees with the general policy of opening reservations but is concerned that the bill does not pay a sufficient price to the Native Americans. President Roosevelt wants just terms for the settlers and Native Americans.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Charles L. Davis to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Letter from Charles L. Davis to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Charles L. Davis gives Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock the requested report on the use and operation of Sullys Hill National Park for 1906. Davis’s duties at the Devils Lake Agency made it impossible for him to closely monitor visitors to the park. He notes the lack of appropriations from Congress, which have made it impossible to improve or develop the park. Davis recommends that if the Department of the Interior does not intend to provide funding for the park, the land be returned to the public domain and sold so that the funds can benefit the Native American tribes who originally occupied the land.

Collection

White Horse Hill

Creation Date

1906-08-06

Creator(s)

Davis, Charles L. (Charles Logan), 1860-1942

To talk politics? No! says Woodruff

To talk politics? No! says Woodruff

G. W. Woodruff, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of the Interior, denies that he has come to Muskogee to make a political address. Woodruff makes it clear that he is there to work with the Indian agent Dana H. Kelsey to settle “some knotty points” regarding the removal of land restrictions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-05

Creator(s)

Unknown

Amendment

Amendment

Text of a proposed amendment that will allow Delaware Indians that have settled and improved land in the Cherokee Nation to first select from these lands for their allotments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03

Creator(s)

Unknown