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Sac and Fox Indian Agency Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1840–1888
Source: 
Records, .33 foot

Description
Indian tribal agency. Ledgers (1876–1888) recording receipt of and payment for supplies, expenditures for freight costs, the police force, employee salaries, cash payments to Indians, and names of Indians eligible for payment; copies of correspondence (1840–1872) from agent John Beach to the governor of Iowa and other officials regarding land distribution, employment, depredations, trade, education, and problems among the Sac and Fox; and one letter (1872) from the governor of Kansas to Gen. John Pope regarding Indian depredations in western Kansas and the capture of Mary Jordan by raiding Indians.