Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837, credited to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837 by Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes, Congress requires updates every year, and those reports are available to the public. In 1837, the Office of Indian Affairs was still under the War Department and did not publish the Commissioner's report as a separate document. In this era of removal and the apparent growth of the Office of Indian Affairs, the focus is on reports from the agents regarding specific topics, along with instructions to the agents, laws and regulations, and numerous blank forms to be completed (lest we fall into the folly of thinking that bureaucracy generated less paperwork in the nineteenth century). The agents reported on the overall situation in their areas (including information about geography and climate), schools and education, and thoughts about what additional laws needed to be passed. Most of the authors of the individual sections are not recorded. Only a single section purports to be written by a Native tribe--a petition from the Shawnees. Keep in mind that these reports were written as argumentative or persuasive pieces. The reader should be alert to determine the problems about which they are arguing and their proposed solutions. The New York Public Library extracted these documents into a separate volume. The bibliographic information can be heard in Section 00. - Summary by stepheather

Recording facts

• Recording title: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837
• Author credits: Commissioner of Indian Affairs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 76
• Listed recording duration: 9:00:43

Catalogue topics

• native american history
• government reports
• indian removal
• shawnee tribe

Opening tracks: first 24 of 76

1. 00 - Bibliographic Information — 1:30
2. 01 - Report from the Office of Indian Affairs by C.A. Harris — 16:07
3. 02 - List of the Documents Accompanying the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs — 4:40
4. 03 - Document Number 1 Report of the Acting Superintendent of Michigan — 17:47
5. 04 - Document Number 2 Report of the Superintendent of Wisconsin Territory — 15:19
6. 05 - Document Number 3 Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Western Territory — 24:14
7. 06 - Document Number 4 Report of the Principal Disbursing Agent of the Western Territory — 11:56
8. 07 - Document Number 5 Report from the Agent of Council Bluffs — 8:18
9. 08 - Document Number 5 1/2 Report of the Sub-Agent at Council Bluffs — 12:46
10. 09 - Document Number 6 Report of the Sub-agent on the Osage River — 4:24
11. 10 - Document Number 7 Report of the Sub-agent on the Great Nemahaw River — 3:00
12. 11 - Document Number 8 Report of the Agent on the Upper Missouri River — 6:04
13. 12 - Document Number 9 Report of the Sub-agent on the Upper Missouri River — 10:22
14. 13 - Document Number 10 Instructions to the Special Agent to the Camanches and Others — 6:10
15. 14 - Document Number 11 Statement Showing the Number of Indian Schools, Their Location, and the Number of Teachers and Pupils, December 1, 1837 — 19:25
16. 15 - Document Number 12 Statement Showing the Amount and Disposition of the Funds Provided by Treaties for the Purposes of Education, December 1, 1837 — 6:25
17. 16 - Document Number 13 Statement Showing the Condition of the Civilization Fund, December 1, 1837 — 1:41
18. 17 - Document Number 14 Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Western Territory regarding Schools — 15:12
19. 18 - Document Number 15 Report of the Teacher at Prairie du Chien — 4:31
20. 19 - Document Number 16 Report of the Sub-agent on the Osage River regarding Schools — 3:23
21. 20 - Document Number 17 New System of Teaching. Extract of a Letter of Robert Simerwell, Teacher, to the Sub-agent on the Osage River — 4:32
22. 21 - Document Number 18 Report of the Teacher for the Kickapoos by P.J. Verhaegen — 3:30
23. 22 - Document Number 19 Extract from a Letter to the Superintendents — 1:22
24. 23 - Document Number 20 Reply of Mr. Schoolcraft to the Preceding — 5:26

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