Crow IndianAagency Records 1877-1894

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Crow IndianAagency Records 1877-1894

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This collection consists of seven letterpress books of outgoing correspondence (1877-1894) of Crow Indian Agents Lewis .H. Carpenter, George W. Frost, Augustus R. Keller, C.H. Barstow, Henry J. Armstrong, H.E. Williamson, and Moses P. Wyman. Includes reports and letters to the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs; minutes of meetings with tribal council; census; texts of treaties; inventories; accounts of events; and financial materials.

1 linear feet of shelf space

eng,

Montana Historical Society Archives

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency

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The Crow Indian Agency was established in Montana Territory by a treaty concluded at Fort Laramie on May 7, 1868. An earlier treaty had been made at Fort Laramie on September 17, 1851, establishing various tribal boundaries in Montana, but had never been ratified formally. The 1868 treaty provided for the construction of an agency complex on the south side of the Yellowstone River near Otter Creek, and the assignment of Indian agents to locally administer tribal affairs and relations with the Un...