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President Roosevelt thanks Representative Driscoll for his letter, and expects Driscoll is glad Francis E. Leupp will be Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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1904-12-10
President Roosevelt would like Frank Mead appointed as Field Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Roosevelt will look into the incidents written about in the North American article, but he tells Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock that he does not believe they are sufficient cause for delaying the appointment.
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1904-10-18
Jean O. Brand, a teacher in Arizona working with the United States Indian Service, is seeking a better position within the service, and writes to Theodore Roosevelt to ask for a letter of recommendation.
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1911-03-24
Francis E. Leupp writes to Charles Ransom Miller, the editor of The Times, regarding a recent article published about him. While Leupp appreciates the friendliness that apparently inspired the article, he wishes to correct an impression that the column gave by stating that he has not given out, and will not give out “any interview, statement, forecast or other utterance concerning Indian affairs pending [his] appointment as Commissioner.”
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1905
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp asks Benjamin F. Barnes to notify him when the appointment of Charles F. Larrabee as Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs is made public, as Leupp would like to publicize it.
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1904-12-12
Timothy L. Woodruff writes to William Loeb regarding a variety of public service positions in New York. He states that several men have recently been made Special Employees by the Secretary of the Treasury in Brooklyn, but are not known to the political leaders of the area. He inquires regarding the Charles J. Dumas, the candidate of the Labor movement for public printer, and asks whether they should do anything further for him. Woodruff also believes that it would be beneficial for New York to appoint Samuel Silver as a clothing inspector with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and that Moran, the person who presently holds the position would not lose much by someone being appointed in his place.
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1908-02-27
Indian Affairs Commissioner Leupp refutes Civil Service Commission President John Charles Black’s assertion that allowing an Indian student to fill a non-competitive messenger position in the Bureau of Indian Affairs is against the civil service code and would lead to non-competitive hiring of unqualified people. Leupp tells Secretary of the Interior Garfield that he believes that placing a student from one of the Indian schools in the messenger position would encourage him to better himself and work to achieve promotion to more competitive roles, thus helping integrate into white society.
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1908-02-10
Arthur G. Elston testifies about unethical conduct occurring in Division “P” of the General Land Office. Elston describes being urged by his chief, George F. Pollock, to change a report recommending charges against the Schow Brothers and Lovell Irrigation Company for willful trespass in Montana. He believes Pollock was acting under pressure from Congressman Mondell and the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Elston also testifies to being aware of similar instances of improper behavior in regards to public lands in Wyoming and Colorado.
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1906-11-15
Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, writes to President Roosevelt regarding a summary of the Indian Contract School, based on a conversation with Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. Leupp hopes that the Bureau of Catholic Missions will believe in his “fairness and charity as heartily as it expects [him] to believe in its own.”
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1906-01-26
Francis E. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, writes to President Roosevelt regarding Colonel Cecil Andrew Lyon and the purchase of coal lands owned by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.
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1906-01-23
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp writes to William Loeb, enclosing a letter for President Roosevelt.
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1906-01-23
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
John Orien Crow, Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, informs J. Leonard Volz that the proposed wilderness designation for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park will not affect any Indian lands, as the nearest is the Fort Berthold Reservation fifty miles southwest of the park.
1972-11-22
Responding to a request from President Roosevelt for a report regarding James H. Monteath’s service as an Indian agent, C. Hart Merriam encloses a letter and expresses his deep concern that Monteath and others like him are unfit for such service. Merriam appeals to the president’s sense of “justice and good government” to remove such men. He also expresses concern that George Bird Grinnell’s report regarding the Standing Rock Reservation was suppressed and not published.
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1904-03-19
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released its report on the Moqui investigation. Mr. Kampmeyer was dismissed and Mr. Ballenger was deemed unfit for his position and transferred to a less responsible place. Charles E. Burton was reprimanded for neglect of duty and for the improper hair cutting order. The Sequoya League is satisfied with the report and believes that Burton can complete his term without further injustice to the Hopi Indians of Moqui.
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1903-10
As previously agreed, Lyman Abbott requests letters of introduction for his son, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, who will be investigating conditions in the South. Abbott will be in Lake Mohonk next week pressing for two reforms, the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department and placing all public schools under the Bureau of Education. He believes these reforms will remove the issues from partisan politics. Next week, Abbott is beginning a lecture series on preaching at Yale University. He encloses clippings on James Kimble Vardaman and wishes more could be done to oppose Vardaman’s election.
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1903-10-12
The Outlook is publishing a paper on Indian affairs by Frank Wood but suggests three changes: the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, Native Americans should be wards of the state for a time after the breakup of a reservation, and the office of Superintendent of Indian Schools should be abolished.
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1903-09
William Alonzo Day informs President Roosevelt that Mr. Taylor and Henry Martyn Hoyt will forward a report about Colorado officers. Day also writes that the charges by Samuel M. Brosius are being investigated. Marshal Colbert will send an explanation.
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1903-09-05
Charles Fletcher Lummis writes to President Roosevelt about the Bureau of Indian Affairs investigation of its inspectors and the Moqui matter.
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1903-09-04
Natalie Curtis Burlin urges President Roosevelt to hire Frank Mead to an Indian agency for improved relations with the government.
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1903-08-31