Index to Testimony of Mississippi Choctaw Applications
Index to Testimony of Mississippi Choctaw Applications, taken in Mississippi in January and February, 1899
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Disbursements to Cherokees under the Treaty of May 6, 1828
An abstract of disbursements made by Cherokee agent George Vashon records payments to 390 Cherokee families, totaling 1,835 individuals, under the fifth article of the 1828 treaty. Between September 1830 and December 1833, Vashon distributed $47,251.75 of the $50,000 congressional grant by War Department drafts, with a slight discrepancy from the actual recorded amount.
Canton Asylum, 1910, List of Patients
A historical record of patients detained at the Canton Indian Insane Asylum in South Dakota in 1910, this page lists 61 inmates and reflects the troubled legacy of an institution where many Native Americans were confined without clear evidence of mental illness. The cemetery, now on a golf course, was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.