UNITED STATES. OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS:

The records consist mainly of communications received from superintendents, agents, and other field officials of the Office of Indians Affairs; from government officials, from merchants, shippers, and other firms; and from Indians, attorneys, and private citizens. They relate to such concerns as Indian population, education, health, agriculture, subsistence, emigration, intertribal warfare, land allotments and transactions, annuities, depredations, claims, and traders.

Considerable information on general policy, financial matters, agents and employees, buildings and supplies, and other aspects of agency administration is also included.

Rolls 252, 281, 305, 306, and 825 contain materials on the Northern Pacific Railroad's surveying expeditions across Montana and the Dakotas in the 1870s.

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Alphabetical by name of agency or, occasionally, topic (for those letters primarily regarding emigration or land reserves); thereunder chronological.

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A guide produced by the National Archives lists the specific date span included on each individual reel. This guide also gives more detail about the administrative structure and field organization of the Office of Indian Affairs, the filing system for the letters received, the provenance of these and related files, and their subject content. Tribal and jurisdictional indices to the files are also included.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: pamphlet accompanying microcopy no. 234. Washington: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1966.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Microfilm Production:

Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1956. (National Archives Microfilm Publications; Microcopy No. 234).

Location of Originals:

Originals: National Archives Record Group 75, Records of the Office of Indian Affairs. National Archives; Washington, D.C.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 10,370; 10,954; 11,454; 11,865; 11,867; 12,059; 12,549; 13,996

Processing Information:

Although numbered Microcopy No. 234 by The National Archives, these selected microfilm reels were renumbered M175 when added to the Minnesota Historical Society's collections.

Catalog ID number: 990017363880104294

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Black Hawk War, 1832.

Dakota Indians -- Government relations.

Dakota Indians -- Wars.

Fox Indians.

Fur trade.

Indians of North America -- Agriculture.

Indians of North America -- Claims against.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Indians of North America -- Land tenure.

Indians of North America -- Treaties.

Missionaries -- United States.

Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations.

Potawatomi Indians -- Government relations.

Railroads -- Surveying.

Sauk Indians -- Government relations.

Spirit Lake Massacre, Iowa, 1857.

Persons:

Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton), 1822-1902.

Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1829-1922.

Bailly, Alexis, 1798-1861.

Brown, Joseph Renshaw, 1805-1870.

Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905.

Cretin, Joseph, 1799-1857.

Daniels, Asa Wilder, 1829-1923.

Daniels, Jared Waldo, 1827-1904.

Dodd, William B., 1811-1862.

Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868.

Faribault, Alexander, 1806-1882.

Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene), 1828-1903.

Forbes, William Henry, 1815-1875.

Galbraith, Thomas J.

Gilfillan, Charles Duncan, 1831-1902.

Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876.

Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917.

Lea, Luke, 1810-1898.

Marshall, William Rainey, 1825-1896.

Miller, Stephen, 1816-1881.

Myrick, Nathan, 1822-1903.

Pendergast, William Wirt, 1833-1903.

Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903.

Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894.

Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883.

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891.

Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879.

Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871.

Thompson, Clark Wallace, 1825-1885.

Organizations:

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Lac qui Parle Mission (Minn.).

American Fur Company.

Northern Pacific Railway Company.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Chicago Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Chippewa Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Creek Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Dakota Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Fort Totten Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Grand River Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Green Bay Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Iowa Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. La Pointe Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Mackinac Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Miami Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Michigan Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Minnesota Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Northern Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Osage Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Prairie du Chien Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sac and Fox Agency (Kan. and Okla.).

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Saginaw Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. St. Louis Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. St. Peters Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sault Ste. Marie Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Turkey River Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Winnebago Agency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Wisconsin Superintendency.

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Yankton Agency.

Document Types:

Microforms.

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