No. 9576 Action: Reject Name: Emeline J. Smith and X children Residence: Mt. Vernon, Ala Reason: Applicant claims through her fathers brother who was ½ Cherokee and as applicant was born in 1833 and her father in 1790 her father’s mother must have been born about 1770. It does not appear that any ancestor was […]
Images of hand written correspondence of Emeline J. Smith concerning her Choctaw heritage.
In some places the writing is very difficult to read. Very little punctuation was used in the 21 hand written pages. Some names not be spelled correctly. Chicago, Illinois July 8, 1876 Adjt. Genl. US Army Washington DC The following is a copy of General Terry’s report of the action of June twenty-fifth (25) camp
This page covers the male patients interred in Canton Asylum during the year of 1921.
This page covers the female patients interred in Canton Asylum during the year of 1921.
In 1898, Congress passed a bill creating the only ‘Institution for Insane Indians’ in the United States. The Canton Indian Insane Asylum, South Dakota (sometimes called Hiawatha Insane Asylum) opened for the reception of patients in January, 1903. Many of the inmates were not mentally ill. Native Americans risked being confined in the asylum for
The Pacific Region of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is one of 12 Regional Offices located across the country. These 12 Regional Offices make up the field portion of the Bureau. A Regional Director who reports to the Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, heads each Regional Office. Each Region is made up of several
Swanton’s The Indian Tribes of North America is a classic example of early 20th Century Native American ethnological research. Published in 1953 in Bulletin 145 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, this manuscript covers all known Indian tribes, at the time, broken down by location (state). AccessGenealogy’s online presentation provides state pages by which the user is then either provided a brief history of the tribe or is referred to a more in-depth ethnological representation of the tribe and its place in history. This ethnology usually contains the various names by which the tribe was known, general locations of the tribe, village names, brief history, population statistics for the tribe, and then connections in which the tribe is noted.
The SpanishAmerican War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. By 189798 American public opinion grew more angry at reports of
List of Staff Officers of the Confederate States Army 1861-1865
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