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- Letter from the Secretary of War...Relating to the Settlement of Claims of Citizens of the United States against the Pottawatomie Indians.
- ISBN: NA Price: $303.87
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1842
- Description: 27th Cong., 2nd Sess., HD, War Department, 143, 151 pp.; claims arising from the relocation from Michigan and Indiana; age staining throughout, disbound.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indian removal, Western Americana Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 580758
- In Senate the Senate of the United States: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the public documents and testimony of James Erwin, of Arkansas, soliciting relief ... had the same under consideration, and report, etc. etc. etc.
- ISBN: NA Price: $35.93
- Publisher: Washington: Ritchie & Heiss, printers, Date Published: 1846
- Description: 20 pp.; issued as 29th Congress, 1st Session, S 177; slight extraction roughness at spine, text becoming age toned but not fragile, self wrappers; in 1834 Erwin entered into a contract with a disbursing agent for Indian removals and gathered corn, beef, salt, wagons, teams, etc. with the expectation that 5,000 Indians were coming but as they never arrived Erwin and the heirs of his partner Daniel Greathouse seek compensation for their losses from Congress,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Americana, Indian removal Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 484715
- Indiania, ovvero, il paese delle Ombre Rosse, a cura di Gianni Guadalupi.
- ISBN: 8821605566 Price: $152.47
- Publisher: Milano: Franco Maria Ricci Date Published: 1987
- Description: quarto, 281 [2] pp. with a folding color map included in the pagination, tipped color illustrations after paintings by George Catlin, contains L'O-Kie-Pa di George Catlin; Le male terre di Emile de Girardin; and Go ahead! di Louis-Laurent Simonin, all in Italian only; near fine in black original cloth with a mounted color cover illustration and black cloth covered box with paper spine label. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana, American Indians, TZZ Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 733697
- The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLII. Edited by John S. Hart, LL.D.
- ISBN: NA Price: $460.02
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Date Published: 1852
- Description: first edition; [title leaf], [xiii]-xvi, [19]-298 pp., 10 (of 12) chromolithographs but including all eight of the Seth Eastman plates; original black leather with gold lettering and decorations and a female Liberty figure in recessed ovals on both covers; binding rubbed and worn with front hinge broken and detached, age spotting and staining to text, the plates darkened, fair-good only; notable for contributions by Mary Eastman on Indian life in the neighborhood of Fort Snelling in Minnesota. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: gift books, Western Americana, American Indians, Minnesota Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 346706
- Testimony before the Select Committee on Removal of Northern Cheyennes as to the Removal and Situation of the Ponca Indians.
- ISBN: NA Price: $70.23
- Publisher: Washington: GPO Date Published: 1880
- Description: 102 pp.; issued as 46th Congress, 3d Session, SMD 48; light general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers; interviews with members of the commission appointed by the President to investigate the forced relocation of the Ponca to Indian Territory; "I have an impression that there has been a good deal of crookedness in the management of Indian affairs, more of less, all along the way, but it is one of the incidents of the condition of things which cannot be avoided probably.",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Ponca removal, American Indians Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 566528
- Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance Of the act for carrying into effect the treaties wtih the Chickasaws, showing the money received on account of their lands, &c.
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.71
- Publisher: Washington: Blair & Rives, printers, Date Published: 1839
- Description: first edition; 5 pp.; issued as 26th Congress, 1st Session, S 9; age staining but entirely readable, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; the bonds and stocks purchased with money received for the sale of lands have done well but there are many deductions from the gross amount, e.g. the Chickasaw had to pay over a half million dollars for their own removal and immediate subsistence. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, Chickasaw removal Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 784076
- Cherokee Delegation. Memorial of the Cherokee Delegation, Submitting the memorial and protest of the Cherokee People to Congress.
- ISBN: NA Price: $241.59
- Publisher: Washington: Thomas Allen, printer, Date Published: 1838
- Description: first edition; 7 pp.; light general age toning with lower tips creased but untrimmed and unopened in self wrappers; the text of a memorial signed by over fifteen thousand Cherokees who don't want to be removed and an interesting statement from United States government representatives outlining the enormous benefits of the move e.g. free transpiration, more than adequate compensation for "sterile, worn out fields", remarkably fertile new land to settle on surrounded by friends and old neighbors with no "crafty and avaricious white men" to bother you, etc., in general a not to be missed opportunity to be "a free, great, prosperous, and happy people!",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Removal Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 807562
- Clements, Bryan, & Co. ... The Committee of Claims have under consideration Senate Bill (No. 97) entitled "An act for the relief of Clements, Bryan & Co.," and make the following report ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.13
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1841
- Description: 66 pp.; issued as 26th Congress, 2d Session, HR 137; light extraction roughness at spine, scattered age staining, self wrappers; Clements, Bryan, & Co. contracted for provisioning the Cherokees during their removal West but claimed expenses, particularly for beef and other foodstuffs secured en route, that were much higher than expected,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Removal Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 477634
- Report upon the Conditions on the Flathead Indian Reservation
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.70
- Publisher: Washington Date Published: 1915
- Description: 93 pp., original cloth, hand stamp to front paste down, some old moisture stains and discoloration to covers, overall about good,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana INDIAN AFFAIRS Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 612337
- Creek Indians. Memorial of the Head Men and Warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians. February 6, 1832,
- ISBN: NA Price: $64.99
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1832
- Description: first edition; 5 pp.; issued as 22d Congress, 1st Session, HD 102; age toned and dark but readable and not fraile, light extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; objections to removal west of the Mississippi, poses interesting questions on the relative powers of the State of Alabama and the Federal government . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indian removal, Creek Nation, Alabama Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 750997
- Special Message of The President of the United States in relation to the Ponca Indians. February 1, 1881.
- ISBN: NA Price: $179.81
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1881
- Description: first edition; 7 pp.; original paper wrappers darkened at margins and light general age toning to text but still a very good copy; concerns the Ponca Removal of 1877 and a frank admission that a great injustice has been done and what will be done to remedy it (interestingly Hayes does not want to admit that the government was at fault, even "the public" may be to blame). Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Ponca Removal, Ponca Indians, Dakota, Indian Territory Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 866946
- In the Senate ... Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of Indian Office report of the 21st instant relative to the situation among the Navajo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.52
- Publisher: Washington: GPO Date Published: 1892
- Description: 16 pp.; issued as 52d Congress, 1st Session, SED 156; plans to ascertain "the practicability of restraining the Navajos within their present reservation, and of furnishing irrigation and water for their flocks"; slight extraction roughness, disbound in self wrappers,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: pamphlets, Navajo Indians, Western Americana Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 517289
- Die Pueblo-Indianer. Eine historisch-ethnographische Studie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $16.82
- Publisher: Halle: Druck von E. Karras, Date Published: 1907
- Description: large quarto, 266 pp., large folding table, 9 plates, color map; issued as Nova acta. Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. 87, Nr. 1; library markings, map detached and tattered along fore edge with no loss, later half cloth frayed at extremities. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Pueblo Indians, Western Americana, ethnology Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 532997
- The Letters of Peter Wilson, Soldier, Explorer and Indian Agent West of the Mississippi River. By Katherine Gideon Colt. With an introduction by Usher L. Burdick.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.42
- Publisher: Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, Date Published: 1940
- Description: first edition, [40] pp., portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates; light general age toning, untrimmed as issued, very good++; letters to relatives in Washington about his travels and activities from 1819 to 1826. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana, American Indians swn Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 720591
- Letter ... transmitting ... copies of documents and correspondence relating to leases of lands in the Indian Territory to citizens of the United States for cattle-grazing and other purposes.
- ISBN: NA Price: $141.45
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1884
- Description: 160 pp.; issued as 48th Congress, 1st Session, SED 54; light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers; proper leases, leases given by the wrong Indians, unauthorized grazing, herds passing through, etc. etc.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana, cattle, Indian Territory Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 258967
- In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an agreement with the Nez Perce tribe of Indians in Idaho, together with the report of the commissioner appointed to negotiate with said Indians, and a draft of a
- ISBN: NA Price: $28.95
- Publisher: Washington: GPO Date Published: 1894
- Description: 68 pp., extracted from larger bound volume, textually near very good, softcover. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: western americana Indians Legal History Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 288447
- Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah; being a Report of Progress of the Explorations for the Year 1872
- ISBN: NA Price: $341.49
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1873
- Description: incomplete copy, xi, [1], 541 pp., plates, but lacking evertything beyond that point (over 300 pages), text age toned and shaken, sold as is. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 733704
- Documents Accompanying the Message of the President of the United States, to Both Houses, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress. 18th Congress,, 1st Session, SD 1
- ISBN: NA Price: $352.79
- Publisher: Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton Date Published: 1823
- Description: 206 pp. + folding charts mostly of a tabular nature; extracted from larger bound volume, age darkened throughout, in all good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: western americana indian affairs Americana Public Finance Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 457823
- Lands within the Chickasaw Cession. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to Lands sold which lie within the Chickasaw ession, &c. June 9, 1840.
- ISBN: NA Price: $108.42
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1840
- Description: first edition; 9 pp., largely tabular; issued as 26th Congress, 1st Session, HED 240; light general age toning but an untrimmed and unopened copy in self wrappers with a single tread tie; land in Mississippi that when sold was believed to be part of the Choctaw cession, an effort is being made to credit the money to the proper former owners. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, Chickasaw removal, Mississippi, PL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 807545
- Oneota, or Characteristics of the Red Race of America, From Original Notes and Manuscripts.
- ISBN: NA Price: $73.17
- Publisher: NY/London: Wiley & Putnam Date Published: 1845
- Description: first book edition from the parts issue; i-vi, 6-512 pp. as issued; bottom half damp stained almost throughout, age staining, early owners name on blank, still a sound copy in recent blue cloth; Howes S 188. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, Americana Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 533520
