Harrison, President Benjamin; United States Sioux Commission. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Reports relative to the proposed division of the great Sioux Reservation, and recommending certain legislation 51st Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 51. [Washington DC]: [U.S. Govt. Printing Office], 1890. First Edition. [4367]
Half morocco with marbled boards, page edges & end papers, edges worn & corner tips worn through, 9 x 6 inches. Former owner's ink stamp on top page edge, address label on ffep. Infrequent pencil notes, 308 pp. plus two large folding maps. The leather has been successfully sealed with Cellugel to protect against red rot. Good. Hardcover.
Caption title: Sioux Reservation.
"Sioux Reservation | 1889 | Edmund Waddill, Jr." in gilt on spine. Waddill was a Republican Congressman from Virginia.
Maps: 1. Map of Cheyenne River Agency, 24 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches, short tear near inner fold. 2. Map showing Lower Brule Agency, South Dakota, 22 1/2 x 17 inches, fine.
Marken, et al. Bibliography of the Sioux, no. 119.
Report and Council proceedings of the Sioux Commission sent to obtain consent from the Indians for a division and reduction of the Great Sioux Reservation. All of the councils, discussions, participants, translators, are recorded here. The Commission consisted of Charles Foster of Ohio, William Warner of Missouri, and General George Crook of the United States Army. They were sent to present to the Sioux Indians occupying the Great Sioux Reservation a plan for dividing and reducing the Reservation, requiring the signatures of 3/4ths of the adult males to validate the new terms. All of the discussions, concerns, obstacles, solutions, and the outcome of the "negotiations" are given in full in this very scarce volume.
