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Collection A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 to 1875

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894 (U.S. Serial Set, Numbers 4014 and 4015)

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894 is in U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Number 4015, which contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897.

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894 is in U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Number 4015, which contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. Part one is in U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Number 4014, and also included in this collection. Part two was also printed as House Document No. 736 of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 56th Congress, 1st Session. Part two features 67 maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas. The tables are titled: (1) Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress Authorizing Allotments of Lands in Severalty, and (2) Schedule of Indian Land Cessions.

The Schedule of Indian Land Cessions (which starts at page 648 of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Number 401) contains 709 entries of cessions from 1784 to 1894, descriptions of the land ceded, and the names of the tribes affected.

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Bibliographic Record (Serial Set)

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