Edward E. Barry Collection, 1874-1977

NARA series # 75.19.30-1. "Incoming letters from The Commissioner of Indian Affairs deal with Indian horse raids and hostile actions (1877-1885), the creation of the Rocky Boy's Indian Agency (1915-1916), enrollments and claims for damages resulting from the construction of Dodson dam among other topics. Many letters discuss aspects of the education program. Registers are included with letters from 1919-1924. Some telegrams are also included. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-2. "Outgoing bound letters from the Superintendent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Letters include routine agency business as well as annual, monthly, school and farm reports, census and allotment rolls, and references to the creation and maintenance of the Rocky Boy's Indian Agency. Registers are included with volumes for 1923-1925. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-3. "Unbound copies of letters sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from the Superintendent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency. These letters are similar to those in Series 2. Letters from 1878-1899 do not duplicate those of the same dates in Series 2; however, some 1916 letters are duplicates. These letters were apparently filed separately from the bound volumes in Series 2. Topics include fiscal matters, reports of migrations of Canadian Indians and Indian raids, and an 1882 annual report describing the Ft. Belknap Agency and the daily life of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indians. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-4. "Press copies of letters sent by the superintendent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency to farmers-in-charge, school teachers, employees, the superintendent of St. Paul's Mission school, local merchants and others pertaining to the implementation of Indian office policy and maintenance of the agency. Of particular interest are the minutes of a 1911 tribal council meeting opposing the allotment of lands to individual Indian of the Ft. Belknap Agency. Letters regarding the Rocky Boy's Agency are also included. There are no indexes in the volumes. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-5. "Letters received by the Superintendent of the Fort Belknap Indian Agency from employees, school teachers, merchants, Indian trades, military officers, and other agents. Many letters from military officers deal with Indian raids; horse stealing and other disturbances. Some letters from the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police discuss the transport of stolen horses across the border. Other letters describe irrigation projects and water rights on the Milk River. A rough draft of an 1887 agreement between the Indians of the Ft. Belknap, Ft. Peck and Blackfeet agencies and the U.S. government for a diminished reservation is also included. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-6. "Press and carbon copies of letters sent by the superintendent of the Ft. Belknap Indian agency to Indian agents, farmers-in-charge, merchants, military officers, settlers, and others. Topics discussed include Indian raids and horse stealing, land leases for grazing and sugar beet culture, Indian health care, agency and non-reservation schools, land heirship, Individual Indian Money, irrigation usage, and agency fiscal matters and employees. Letters for 1915 and portions of 1916-1917, 1921-1924 are missing. There are indexes to letters in the volumes for 1880-1887 and 1907-1910. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-7. "Letters received, and copies of letters sent by the Superintendent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency to military officers, other Indian agents, employees, merchants, bankers, Indians and others. There are a few letters to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and letters from 1878-1887 are predominantly outgoing, addressed to military officers and deal with Indian migrations, raids, and horse stealing. An 1878 letter describes raids on Ft. Belknap Indians by renegade Sioux and Sitting Bull. Outgoing letters from 1878-1887 seem to compliment letters from that period in entry 6. Other topics include tribal enrollments, grazing permits, claims for damage to crops and lands from the building of the Ft. Belknap-Dodson Reservoirs, Indian education and agency fiscal matters. The formal October 1895 agreement for a diminished Ft. Belknap Agency is also included. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-9. "After 1925, general correspondence and reports were arranged by a decimal instead of an alphabetical subject file or registry system. This series, pre-1926 correspondence, was brought forward and incorporated into the decimal file of this Ft. Belknap Indian agency. Some annual reports were retained in the decimal file; others were not. Files relating to the Rocky Boy's Indian Agency are also included."

NARA series #75.19.30-11. "An alphabetical subject file of correspondence and reports pertaining to education, health and welfare on the Ft. Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Agencies Correspondence is filed under the above headings, as well as other topics relating to those headings such as credit fund, delinquents, CC-ID, enrolled program, home care, land leases (specified), marriage licenses, medical reports, ration list and Rocky Boy's agency programs."

NARA series #75.19.30-12. "Annual statistical and narrative reports of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency. Reports from 1913-1925 deal with agency finances and personnel, law and order, health, education, industries (agriculture), forestry, irrigation, and tribal censuses. Not every report has a narrative accompanying the annual statistics. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-14. "Descriptive statements of Indian and white employees of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency, day and boarding schools, the Milk River, Peoples Creek and Lodge Pole day schools, and Indian police. Statements include name of employee, sex, race, age, marital status, position, previous occupation, birthplace, residence, where employed and for what tribes, date of nomination, dates of service, compensation, regular and irregular employee, and remarks. Entries are arranged chronologically, and by place of employment there under."

NARA series #75.19.30-16. "Personal histories and efficiency reports of Indian and white employees at the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency and schools. Personal histories include employees name, race, dater, and place of birth, occupation, salary, other Indian office service, military service, education and physical attributes. Efficiency reports evaluate teachers and farmers-in-charge and include the employee's name, race, position, salary date and comments."

NARA series #75.19.30-21. "Fragmentary records reflecting the implementation of school policies and the daily activities of the students. Included are annual reports, correspondence, reports of supervisory visits to classrooms, application for enrollment, statements of children transferred to St. Paul's Mission school and other non-reservation schools, tuition statements from St. Paul's Mission school, school activities, reports of examination and promotion, and printed reports of the superintendent of Indian Schools. Arranged by type of record and there under chronologically. Not every year is represented in the records."

NARA series #75.19.30-26. "Local school districts and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs entered into agreements to register a specified number of Indian children in public schools. Fragmentary correspondence and contracts. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-28. "Annual and quarterly estimates of goods and supplies for the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency and schools. Estimates of amounts and types of foods for a specified number of students indicate the type of diet promoted at the boarding school. Titles of books comprising the curriculum are also included. Arranged chronologically. Not every year is presented in the records."

NARA series #75.19.30-31. "A Work Progress Administration project intended to document allotments of land to Indians on the Fort Belknap Reservation. Records include instructions for completing allotment forms; list of allottees and allotment numbers containing allotment or estate records, stating names and no. of allottees, date of allotment, legal description of land, and disposition of allotments, i.e. removal of restriction, certificate of competency, issuance of fee patents, sale by approved deed, relinquishment, etc.; and land reserved for special purposes."

NARA series #75.19.30-32. "Surveys conducted by the Superintendent, farmer and field matron to determine status of Indian and allotments on the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency. Surveys for each family include: allotment number for head of household, degree of blood, status (ward or non-ward), number for family members and statements regarding type of allotment and present land use, health, description of family members (including allotment statements), physical description of dwelling, reimbursable debts, crops and livestock raised over the past year, and date of survey. Most surveys include a photograph of the family and their dwelling."

NARA series #75.19.30-33. "Fragmentary records related to irrigation programs at the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency include a report and estimated cost of irrigating systems for Milk River, Beaver Creek, Big and Little Warm Springs, Lodge Pole and Peoples Creek (1898), annual statistics of irrigable and irrigated lands and a list of irrigated lands on Indian allotments (1924-1933), and water uses census, indicating the users name and a description of the irrigated land (1938-1940, 1944)."

NARA series #75.19.30-35. "Annual and monthly statistical reports of farming operations at locations on the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency. There are annual reports for the Ft. Belknap Indian Training Schooled and the Hays sub-agency including a list of crops raised at the school, and acres cultivated and livestock raised by specific Indians on the Hays district. Monthly reports of resident farmers include Indian assisted and instructed in farming techniques, acres plowed and planted, crops stored or processed, houses erected by Indians, condition of stock, and remarks. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-36. "Records relating to the establishment of a program of sugar beet farming for the Indians in conjunction with private industry. The program proposed that unoccupied agency land be leased to private sugar-beet companies, who would Indian labor to cultivate the beets. Indian profits would be applied to a general reservation refund or payment to individual Indian laborers and investment in annual farm machinery. Records include correspondence to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sugar-beet companies and others regarding the program description and implementation, leases for sugar beet farming executed by the Business Council of the Indians of Ft. Belknap, the CIA, the Superintendent and private farms."

NARA series #75.19.30-39. "The Milk River Stock Administration administered a large portion of grazing lands for the use of other Indians in the Milk River district. Grazing fees were charged to Association members and non- members. Receipts were entered into an I.I.M. account Entries include Association estimates of receipts and expenses and grazing charges, and receipts for leases including allotments numbers, names, amount paid and number of stock grazed."

NARA series #75.19.30-40. "Fragmentary operational record pertaining to grazing activities on leased land. Subjects include the allocation of range units, powers of attorney for grazing permits, schedules of ranges, range inspection, abstract of bids for grazing privileges, Indian stockman's grazing money, official tribal receipts, record of payments for grazing permits, performance of yearling stars on summer mountain ranges, and cattle censuses."

NARA series #75.19.30-47. "Files pertaining to the implementation of forestry program activities at the Ft. Belknap and Rocky Boy's Agencies. Records include annual forestry and grazing reports, annual fire reports, and fire protection records, Ft. Belknap and Rocky Boy's sawmill reports, and analysis of expenditures. The bulk of the records are for the period 1932-1948."

NARA series #75.19.30-52. "Fragmentary records including consolidated financial statements, individual project statements, budget estimates, payroll summaries, directories, and Indian employee checks."

NARA series #75.19.30-62. "Family history cards were compiled about 1909 "to establish in each agency office a set of files in regard to individual Indians especially allotees." History cards developed at the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency omitted allotment numbers, however. Entries may include name of allottees, where married and by whom, if divorced, where and date, Indian and English names of spouse, their parents and children and dates of birth and death."

Minutes of the Fort Belknap Community Council, Fort Belknap Agency.

NARA series #75.19.30-66. "The agency physician was responsible for the health of Indians at the Ft. Belknap Agency. The records include monthly and quarterly sanitary reports listing types and frequency of diseases among Indians, physician's semi-annual statistical reports, lists of supplies and medical used in administering the health program, instructions an correspondence regarding the 1918 influenza epidemic, census of hospital patients and certificates excusing children from class due to illness. Monthly and quarterly reports for the 19th entry include narrative sections dealing with efforts to improve sanitary conditions at Ft. Belknap. Arranged by type of record and there under chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-72. "Dockets of cases heard in the Court of Indian Offenses. Entries include date, name of defendant, charge (accusation) and decision. Arranged chronologically."

NARA series #75.19.30-73. "Copies of cases heard before the court of Indian offenses (at Ft. Belknap) or U.S. Courts involving Indians from the Ft. Belknap Agency. Cases were filed under the heading "court proceedings" or by the surname of the defendant. Estate papers and legal actions such and formal complaints. Warrants to apprehend and probation pledges are also included."

NARA series #75.19.30-74. "Correspondence related to several ongoing welfare programs at the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency including health programs, rationing. Emergency conservation work, civilian conservation corps. Indian farming and stock raising, and flour mill operation. Also include are statistical reports and financial summaries."

NARA series #75.19.30-75. "Fragmentary records consisting of correspondence, applications and lists of recipients for resettlement (admin). Farm Security Administration, ADC, OAA and relief benefits. Apparently maintained separately from other relief program files."

NARA series #75.19.30-78. "Various types of ration records documenting issues to widows, old persons, and physically handicapped persons not receiving consistently monthly incomes form a relief agency. Records include reports and registers of food, household and agricultural items issued to families and individual Indians residing at the Lodge Pole, Hays, and Milk River Districts. Registers contain names and ages of family members. Ration applications and related correspondence are also included."

Microfilmed copies of miscellaneous letters sent by the Fort Belknap Indian Agency, local letters sent by the Fort Belknap Indian Agency, list of Indians at Fort Belknap Indian Agency, and register of annuities issued to Indians at Fort Belknap Agency. From the Archives Branch of the Federal Archives and Records Center, Seattle, Washington. NARA Records Group 75.

These exhibit files are arranged in the order in which the ICC received the materials. The collection of exhibit dockets are comprised of the defendant's exhibits to the ICC Dockets 250-A and 279-C.

Reports presented by the C.D. Shultz and Company, INC. To the Department of Justice Land and National Resources Division in connection with claims before the ICC.

Testimony given before the ICC during proceedings under docket number 250-A and 279-C Testimony is in the form of letters to the Department of the Interior, notes, and court transcripts.

Legal briefs before the ICC containing the pleas from both petitioners and defendants under docket number 250-A and 279-C

Financial records of Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation in the form of itemized disbursement lists of payments from Ft. Belknap as well as letters and quarterly reports.

Reports concerning the Office of Indian Affairs requested by the Secretary of the Interior as well as the U.S. Senate. Includes audit reports by the U.S. General Accounting Office on Billings office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and an inspection report of Ft. Belknap.

Legal briefs presented to the ICC.

Miscellaneous reports presented to the ICC under docket Number 250-A.