Letter from Natalie Curtis to Theodore Roosevelt
The noted ethnologist praises Roosevelt on his commitment to preservation of Native American art.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-07-29
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Indians of North America
Letter from Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Charles Fletcher Lummis
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock informs Charles Fletcher Lummis that it is inappropriate for him to continue signing letters as Chairman of the Advisory Commission, because the commission no longer exists.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-04-14
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Letter from George Bird Grinnell to Theodore Roosevelt
George Bird Grinnell initially declined Samuel Brosius’s offer to investigate the conditions at Standing Rock Indian Reservation because traveling to the reservation is very inconvenient. However, if Grinnell is appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate, he will go out of a sense of duty. Grinnell suggests times when he can meet with the president the following week.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-01
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Letter from George Kennan to Theodore Roosevelt
George B. Grinnell will travel to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation at the President’s request, although according to George Kennan’s letter, the President’s directions had apparently been lost in the mail.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-01
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Letter from George Bird Grinnell to Theodore Roosevelt
George Bird Grinnell will be traveling to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation but wishes to meet with President Roosevelt beforehand to ascertain his views and seek advice. Of special concern to Grinnell is the date that the Walker and Lemon leases were drawn up.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-03
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Letter from Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock has an inspector at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to look into the controversy pertaining to land leases. He encloses a letter from George Kennan regarding these leases and asks President Roosevelt for a detailed answer as to what needs to be done. He argues that an investigation needs to be held related to the leases of Indian land.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-23
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Letter from George Kennan to Theodore Roosevelt
George Kennan encloses a copy of the Russian folk tale “Napoleander” and writes with information from Mary C. Collins, a missionary at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, about the mishandling of land leases by Agent Bingenheimer. Bingenheimer argued to the Indians that the Commissioner forced him to act in this manner and that the leases were drawn up in Washington before the Indians met. Bingenhiemer said that if he had been allowed to speak freely before a Senate hearing, he would have given more information.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-23
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Letter from Alfred B. Kittredge to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Kittredge previously asked President Roosevelt whether the lease of W. I. Walker of Standing Rock Indian Reservation could be executed, and Roosevelt asked him to respond to an article that had appeared in The Outlook about such leases. Kittredge now encloses Walker’s reply to the article by George Kennan on the leases at Standing Rock.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-23
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Letter from George Kennan to George B. Cortelyou
George Kennan thanks George B. Cortelyou for correspondence relating to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Kennan is returning this letter, as well as enclosing one for President Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-28
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Letter from George Kennan to Theodore Roosevelt
George Kennan discusses the issue of government land leases with the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Kennan suggests that an outside investigator (George B. Grinnell), not someone from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, be sent to investigate the land leases on the reservation. He mentions an unnamed investigator whose testimony changed when in front of his superior. Kennan also mentions a letter from Mary C. Collins, a missionary, regarding admissions by Agent Bingenheimer that he has had published in the Outlook.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-28
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Letter from Charles S. Fairhill to Theodore Roosevelt
Mrs. John Markum would like to speak to President Roosevelt on Native American affairs. Mrs. Markum is a person of good sense and what she says should be believed.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-19
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Letter from Ethan Allen Hitchcock to C. F. Nesler
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock encloses articles from the Outlook magazine pertaining to leases of land on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. A controversy is brewing over these leases and Hitchcock orders C. F. Nesler to investigate whether the Standing Rock Indians desire the lease and the propriety with which the government made the lease.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-22
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Letter from Alfred Beard Kittredge to Henry C. Payne
Senator Kittredge of South Dakota would like an agent appointed to the Sisseton Agency, South Dakota. Appropriations have been made for an agent but no one has been assigned since the removal of the last incompetent agent, Mr. Johnson. Kittredge believes this to be a critical period for the Native Americans at the Sisseton Agency and wants someone there to guide them. This should be a political appointment that will hopefully make the residents self-reliant and Republicans. Kittredge points out that the four counties in discussion hold 12 of 132 seats in the South Dakota legislature.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-10
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Extract from letter from Mary C. Collins
According to Mary C. Collins, Agent Bingenheimer was limited in his speech and actions with the Native Americans due to instructions from his superiors. Bingenheimer related to her that Commissioner Jones had the leases drawn up and boundaries determined, long before the meeting at which the Native Americans signed the leases.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-12
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Extract from the proceedings of an Indian Council to protest against the building of the Lemmon Lease Fence
The reservation residents, represented by Thunder Hawk, did not want to provide a lease for part of their land to the railroad. They were forced to do this and then the leased land was marked off in Washington without their input. Agent Bingenheimer claims he was going to take their input but marking off the leased land was done by his superiors without consulting him.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-12
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Letter from Tams Bixby to Theodore Roosevelt
Tams Bixby informs President Roosevelt of his decision to resign as chair of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-13
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Letter from Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Theodore Roosevelt
In response to a request from President Roosevelt for Tams Bixby to be called to Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock reports on his communications with Bixby. As a member of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, Bixby was in Washington, D.C., for an extended period of time in February and March to negotiate agreements with the tribes. He was to return to Indian Territory immediately following, but Hitchcock has learned by telegraph that he has not yet returned. Given his long absence and the important work to be done there, Hitchcock has instructed Bixby to remain where he is until further instructions.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-15
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Memorandum: By telephone from Senator Lodge
Senator Lodge reports that the Indian Appropriations Bill does not contain the clause that President Roosevelt inquired about. There will be no changes to the House or Senate bill.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-31
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Letter from Hamlin Garland to Theodore Roosevelt
Hamlin Garland sends a special copy of his book The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop and an article he is writing on the “Indian problem.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-17
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Letter from Nelson Appleton Miles to Elihu Root
General Miles requests authorization to visit the Philippines accompanied by Cuban and Puerto Rican representatives to promote friendly relations between the United States and the Filipinos.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-02-17