Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Indian Depredations in California. Memorial of the Legislature of California, Asking that Steps be Taken by the General Government to Ascertain the Losses Suffered by Citizens of the State in Late Indian Depredations, and Make Indemnity for the Same
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Indian Depredations in California. Memorial of the Legislature of California, Asking that Steps be Taken by the General Government to Ascertain the Losses Suffered by Citizens of the State in Late Indian Depredations, and Make Indemnity for the Same. June 22, 1868. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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House Documents
Author: USA House of Representatives
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881
Author: Benjamin Perley Poore
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920
Author: Larry Clifford Skogen
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ISBN: 9780806127897
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the colonization of the Americas, European immigrants and American Indians encountered each other's views on the rights and responsibilities of ownership. Disputes arose as a natural result of the meeting of two cultures, and occasionally these developed into sanguinary conflicts. In 1796 the United States Congress created the depredation claims system to compensate Indians and settlers alike for the loss of property and thereby preserve peace on the frontiers. By presenting the lives of non-Indian people who filed for relief from depredations and the legal and political systems under which they filed claims, Larry Skogen accentuates the distinction between the lofty ideals and the penurious, tedious reality of the claims system. Because the young nation could not afford to pay for every stolen cow or burned farmhouse, rules and policies were imposed on the system to protect the treasury, but they slowed the claims process and turned away legitimate claimants empty-handed. In addition the system, seldom used by Indians, became a target of unscrupulous settlers, who filed fraudulent claims and sometimes, because they had political connections, received compensation for losses never incurred. When the system did provide indemnities, Indian nations paid for the actions of their miscreants of whom they disapproved, or, as much more often happened, the U.S. government used monies from the general treasury to pay lawyers and administrators of the estates of long-dead claimants.
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the colonization of the Americas, European immigrants and American Indians encountered each other's views on the rights and responsibilities of ownership. Disputes arose as a natural result of the meeting of two cultures, and occasionally these developed into sanguinary conflicts. In 1796 the United States Congress created the depredation claims system to compensate Indians and settlers alike for the loss of property and thereby preserve peace on the frontiers. By presenting the lives of non-Indian people who filed for relief from depredations and the legal and political systems under which they filed claims, Larry Skogen accentuates the distinction between the lofty ideals and the penurious, tedious reality of the claims system. Because the young nation could not afford to pay for every stolen cow or burned farmhouse, rules and policies were imposed on the system to protect the treasury, but they slowed the claims process and turned away legitimate claimants empty-handed. In addition the system, seldom used by Indians, became a target of unscrupulous settlers, who filed fraudulent claims and sometimes, because they had political connections, received compensation for losses never incurred. When the system did provide indemnities, Indian nations paid for the actions of their miscreants of whom they disapproved, or, as much more often happened, the U.S. government used monies from the general treasury to pay lawyers and administrators of the estates of long-dead claimants.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Annual Message of Governor Ramsey to the Legislature of Minnesota
Author: Minnesota. Governor (1860-1863 : Ramsey)
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Disaster At The Colorado
Author: Charles Baley
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."
One Third of the Nation's Land
Author: United States. Public Land Law Review Commission
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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