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Awarding Benjamin Bell with 160 acres of land in Stillwater, Minnesota for service in "Hill's Company, Tennessee Milita Cherokee Removals." The bounty was awarded according to a Congressional Act approved March 3, 1855.

Located in the Thomas Beauvais Collection

Charges against Godard Bailey (of the Department of the Interior) for the theft of bonds issued by the States of Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and belonging to the Indian Trust Fund.

Located in the Duane Norman Diedrich collection

Handwritten calling card. “Kewakezhig = A home in the skies Joseph Cabay.” Boston address is listed on the back. N.B.: Address was the building housing the rooms of the Boston General Theological Library at the time.

Describes reactions and hysteria to an Indian massacre and his encounter with a Sioux Chief that helped 62 peeople escape. "There appears to be but one wish in the public mind here at ths time, and that is that the Indians may be exterminated or driven beyond the Missouri River - the former is prefered."

Business matters and need for materials, including flannel, clothing, and worsted braids of yarn. Discusses the Dakota War. "Our Indian troubles are not quitted yet & I fear we will have more than is pleasant to bear, for the past two weeks we have almost been under Marshall law Military officers on the move had orders to press into the service all horses & carriages that were wanted." Possibility of military engagement and Confederate influence. "We are allready immensely damaged by these Indians troubles (probably influenced by Secesh & the feeling is that we must settle it now..." Notes "the terrible conflict" occurring in Centreville, [Virginia].

Letter to the Governor of Iowa regarding public responses to the Sioux uprising in Minnesota. Iowa scouts had been sent to Minnesota; they report that the Indians who had committed depredations have moved Northwest. He has had difficulty convincing Iowa residents that they are not in danger; he believes that one good company of 40-50 men is all that will be necessary to send.

Describes a fifteen day trip from Bannock City and Beaverhead mines to Clifton - through "Indian country." A variety of conflicts results in the death of one Native American and member of their party being shot. Stubbs shaved his head so that he couldn't be scalped.

Located in the Western America collection

Written in Ojibwa language.

Providing General Sheridan with estimated strengths of Comanche, Kiowa, Arapahoe, Apache, Cheyenne, and Sioux tribes. Written on Headquarters Department of the Missouri stationery.

Two letters regarding authorship of Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764. Both written on Library of Congress illustrated stationery. The first letter encloses a manuscript copy of William Smith's letter to William Johnson, dated January 13, 1766.