[Rarebooks] FS: Moving Native Americans from Green Bay to land west of the Mississippi River

[Bob Petrilla]

 Herring, Elbert and others. REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF
WAR...EXTINGUISHMENT OF THE INDIAN TITLE TO LANDS IN THE VICINITY OF GREEN
BAY, AND NORTH OF THE WISCONSIN AND IOWAY RIVERS. March 9, 1836. .
Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1836 . First Edition. 5pp, broadsheet,
folded and unopened. In part: "...From the nature of the country and the
progress of the settlements west of Lake Michigan, the Indians now holding
lands in the vicinity of Green Bay can only be considered as temporary
residents there....Transfer them to the country west of the
Mississippi...." This pamphlet also includes an extract of "a talk held by
the principal chiefs and braves of the Sac and Fox nation of Indians, with
Joseph M. Street, Indian agent, the 9th day of May, 1835, on board the
steamboat Wisconsin, Rock Island, in a council where 75 Sacs and Foxes were
present...," &c. 10" x 6" Very Good. Printed self-wraps.
24th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 229. [Not seen in American Imprints
or WorldCat.]   $80.00


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