Oglala Lakota College Archives

Microfilm Inventory:

Office of the Adjunct General - Correspondence Reels

(Text in the Contents column is taken directly from handwritten notes on microfilm boxes; all reels are in drawer 10)

It has been estimated (by a previous archivist) that 80% of the microforms (film and fiche) have been indexed. Updates will be posted as they become available.
Reel No. Contents
Dates
563 Reports of the campaigns of Generals Winfield Siltancock and George A. Custer against the Sioux and Cheyenne, Mar. - May 1867.
1867
2 Reports of the provision of food and ammunition for hunting to nearly 3,000 starving Arapahue, Cheyenne and Sioux people under Chief Red Cloud at Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory.
1871-72
80 Correspondence relating to the attack on the escort party of the surveyors of the Northern Pacific Railroad by Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors on Aug. 14, 1872, at Pryor's River in the Yellowstone Valley. A journal kept by Major John W. Barlow relating to the escort of the surveying party, July 27 - Oct. 1, 1872.
1872
83 Correspondence relating to events at the Red Cloud Agency, including Chief Red Cloud's refusal to move to White River and the troops' capture of 450 Indian ponies grazing illegally on the south side of the Platte River on the Ft. Laramie Military Reservation.
1872
221 Correspondence relating to requests for military protection of the Crow Indian Agency, Montana Territory, from Sioux attacks. Report by Captain George L. Taylor of a fight of Crow, Grosventre and Nez Pierce Indians against 1,200 to 1,500 Sioux Indians below the mouth of the Big Horn River in June 1875.
1875
238 Papers relating to the military expeditions against the Sioux Indians in the Big Horn, Powder and Yellowstone Rivers areas, Nov. 1875 - July 1876
1875
273 Papers relating to the defeat of General George A. Custer and his whole command by Sitting Bull's band of Sioux Indians in the battle on the Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory, June 25 - 26, 1876
1876
292 apers relating to military operations in the Departments of the Platte and Dakota against the Sioux Indians ("Sioux War Papers), 1876 - 96
1876
277 apers relating to military operations in the Departments of the Platte and Dakota against the Sioux Indians ("Sioux War Papers), 1876 - 96
1876
274 Correspondence pertaining to the offer of volunteer military service by Montana citizens in response to the Custer defeat, 1876.
1876
323 Correspondence relating to timber cutting by whites on the Sioux Reservations in Dakota Territory, 1877 - 80.
1877
322 Correspondence, reports of surveys, and maps of the three wagon roads through the Sioux Reservations in Dakota Territory, provided for by the agreement in 1876 with the Sioux. The three routes were from Bismarck to Deadwood City, from Pierre to Deadwood City, and from Ft. Niobrara, Nebraska to Custer City.
1877
279 Correspondence, Jun. - Oct. 1884, relating to the May 1884 killing of Sioux Chief White Thunder by Thunder Hawk and Spotted Tail of the Rosebud Agency, Dakota Territory, as a result of an old feud. Correspondence relating to disturbances at the Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota Territory, resulting from the arrival of T.A. Blands, publisher of the magazine, Council Fire.
1884
634 Papers pertaining to Indian problems in the Departments of the Platte and Dakota. Documents concerning citizens' protests against troop removals, Indians under Lost Bull who left the Tongue River Agency in Montana, and Sioux from Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota Territory, who left for Tongue River to participate in a Sun Dance, 1888.
1888

 

 

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