Petitioning the Freedmen's Bureau
James Hicks filed this petition with the Freedmen's Bureau for the return of seized land lots in the town of Hampton, Virginia. One of the major activities of the...
Removed from their land
This register recorded census-like data on Cherokee Indian family groups. More than 70,000 members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes...
"Report of Plantations leased…"
One of the major activities of the Freedmen's Bureau was the leasing of abandoned and confiscated property. Although their numbers were small, freedmen who had means...
Report of the Doolittle Commission
The Joint Special Committee issued this report on January 26, 1867. It found that the Indian population was rapidly decreasing because of White aggression,...
Rights guaranteed in three languages
Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, France sold more than 800,000 square miles of land to the United States for $15 million—doubling the size of the fledgling...
Same ranch, new country
The Mexican Cession of 1848 transferred 529,017 square miles of territory to the United States—along with jurisdiction over a legal battle for a league of land left...
Same ranch, new country
The Mexican Cession of 1848 transferred 529,017 square miles of territory to the United States—along with jurisdiction over a legal battle for a league of land left...