Finding Aid to the Indian Claims Commission Records, circa 1948-1965 MS.247
Anna Liza Posas
Library and Archives at the Autry
2007, 2013
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Indian Claims Commission records
Creator:
United States. Indian Claims Commission
Creator:
O'Marr, Louis J.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.247
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date: circa 1948-1965
Language of Material:
English
.
Indian Claims Commission Decisions in cooperation with the University of Tulsa Law Library and the National Indian Law Library,
the Electronic Publishing Center digitized all 43 volumes of this collection, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/icc/index.html.
Tribal names used were taken from the formal Indian Claims Commission Index or the documents themselves.
The collection consists of Louis J. O'Marr's original work files. The collection was then inherited by his granddaughter Valerie
Lloyd upon his death. Lloyd gave the collection to Joy Strayer in 2003. Joy Strayer donated the collection to the Braun Research
Library in 2007.
Louis J. O'Marr was a judge appointed to the Indian Claims Commission. A former grocer and a small-town Wyoming lawyer, he
was elected state attorney general in 1943. Although not possessing any special expertise in Indian affairs, he was appointed
as an assistant Commissioner to the Indian Claims Commission, created on 1946 August 13, and sworn in on 1946 April 10 by
President Harry S. Truman.
Indian Claims Commission Record, circa 1948-1965, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.247; [folder number]
[folder title][date].
A majority of the collection consists of copies of legal documents brought before the Indian Claims Commission. Commission
documents include petitions, reports, findings of facts, amendments, opinions, orders, and appeals. Also included are policies,
draft reports, O'Marr correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and copies of historic acts and treaties.
Series 2 predominately pertains to California Indian groups, however, there is a small portion that also pertains to groups
in Nevada.
Processed by Anna Liza Posas, 2007. Additional processing of collection and publication of finding aid made possible by a
grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
- Series 1: General policy documents and correspondence, 1952-1963
- Series 2: Indians of California records and documents, 1948-1962
- Series 3: Non-California Indian claims, 1955-1965
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Legal documents
Crow Indians -- Claims
Northern Paiute Indians -- Claims
Court dockets
Nez Percé Indians -- Claims
Omaha Indians -- Claims
Delaware Indians -- Claims
Miami Indians -- Claims
Shoshoni Indians -- Claims
Seminole Indians -- Claims
Dakota Indians -- Claims
Southern Paiute Indians -- Claims
Cherokee Indians -- Claims
Creek Indians -- Claims
Mohave Indians -- Claims
box 1
General policy documents and correspondence Series 1 1952-1963
Indians of California records and documents Series 2 circa 1948-1962
- Subseries 2.1 Appeals, 1952-1961, undated
- Subseries 2.2 Claims, 1948-1961
- Subseries 2.3 Newspaper clippings,1963
- Subseries 2.4 Rules and documents, undated
box 1
Appeals Subseries 2.1 1952-1961, undated
Appeals docket no. 2-16 documents and reports:
"Brief for the Appellant, the United State" June 1, 1961
"Memorandum in opposition to motion of the Mohave Tribe of Indians, et. al., for leave to file motion to dismiss appeals"
September 29, 1961
"Brief of the Indians of California as appellees on certain issues and as appellants on other issues (Part I, p 1-177)" [no
date]
"Brief of the Indians of California as appellees on certain issues and as appellants on other issues (Part II, p 178-245)"
[no date]
"Supplement 1 to brief of Indian of California part I (pp. 1-197)" [no date]
"Supplement 1 to brief of Indian of California part II (pp. 198-299)" [no date]
"Supplement 2 to brief of Indian of California—illustrative maps" [no date]
"Reply to brief of the Indians of California in response to brief of the United States filed April 27, 1962, and to briefs
of so-called tribal claimants" August 31, 1962
Appeals docket no. 9, May 6, 1952
box 2
Claims Subseries 2.2 1948-1961
Indians of California; Docket 31; 1948-1956
Indians of California; Docket 37; 1948-1949
Pitt River Indians of California; Docket 347; 1959
Indians of California; Docket 31; 1954-1961
Indians of California (Includes article, "Kroeber and the Indian Claims Commission Cases" by Omar C. Steware)
Indians of California; Docket 31; 1959
Indians of California; Docket 37
Baron Long (Mission Indians); Docket 80
Yokiah Tribe; Docket 176
Yana Tribe of Indians; Docket 215
(Shasta), Stanley W. Miller; Docket 333
Draft reports
Indians of California; Docket 31; 1953-1958
Indians of California; Docket 37
Baron Long (Mission Indians); Docket 80
Northern Paiute Nation; Docket 87
Southern Paiute Nation; Docket 88
Yokiah Tribe; Docket 176
Yana Tribe of Indians; Docket 215
Colorado River Tribes; Docket 283
Washoe Tribe, Nevada & California; Docket 288
Mohave Tribe; Docket 295
Quechan Tribe of Fort Yuma; Docket 319
Reservation
Morongo Band of Mission Indians; Docket 325
Southern Paiute Nation; Docket 330
(Shasta), Stanley W. Miller; Docket 333
Pitt River Indians of California; Docket 347
Chemehuevi Tribe; Docket 351
box 2
Newspaper clippings Subseries 2.3 1963
Physical Description: 1 folder
Rules and act documents Subseries 2.4 undated
This folder includes a copy of "An act to ascertain and settle the private Land Claims in the State of California." Original
document was created 1851 March 3, date copy was created is unknown. Folder also includes a mimeograph copy of "Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo." Original document was created in 1848, the date that the copy was created is unknown.
Non-California Indian claims Series 3 1955-1965
- Subseries 3.1 Claims and appeals for individual tribes or nations, 1955-1965
- Subseries 3.2 Claims and appeals for combined tribes or nations, 1955-1965
box 3, box 4
Claims and appeals for individual tribes or nations Subseries 3.1 1955-1965
Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma; Docket 226; 1966
Cherokee Nation; Docket 173; 1961
Cherokee Nation; Docket 190; 1963
Chickasaw Nation; Docket 268; 1962
Creek Nation; Docket 167; 1963
Creek Nation; Docket 168; 1963
Creek Nation; Docket 276; 1965
Crow Tribe of Indians; Docket 54,Appeals number 1-59; 1954-62
Delaware Tribe; Docket 337; 1961
Delaware Tribe, Absentee; Docket 241; 1959
Delaware Tribe; Docket 27-A
Duwamish Tribe; Docket 109; 1962
Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska; Docket 135; 1963
Kiowa, Comanche & Apache; Docket 32; 1955-1959
Miami Tribe; Docket Appeals no. 2-58; 1959
Miami Tribe; Docket Appeals no. 2-59; 1960
Miami Tribe; Docket 67 (consolidated), 124, 314, 337; 1960
Miami Tribe; Docket 67, 124 consolidated; 1965
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, et. Al; Docket 18-B; 1960-1965
Nez Perce; Docket 180-A; 1959
Nez Perce Tribe; Docket 175-A; 1959-1960
Northern Arapaho Tribe; Docket 329-D; 1963
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Docket 225; 1959
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Docket 225 (consolidated); 1960
Ottawa; Docket 303; 1960-62
Northern Paiute Nation; Docket 87; 1961
Pawnee Tribe; Docket 10, Appeals No. 7-61; 1960-1961
Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma; Docket 65; 1962
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma; Docket 322
Pueblo de Cochiti; Docket 136; 1958-1959
Pueblo de Pecos; Docket 174; 1959
Pueblo of Isleta; Docket 211; 1954-59
Pueblo of Zia; Docket 137; 1962
Quinaielt; Docket 242; 1962
Red Lake; Docket 18-B
Sac and Fox Tribes; Docket 135-A; 1961
Seminole Nation; Docket 152; 1963
Seminole Nation; Docket 205, Appeals no 3-58; 1963
Seneca Nation; Docket 342-A; 1962
Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Docket 368-A
Seneca Nation; Docket 342-H, 1963
Shoshone Tribe; Docket 326; 1962
Shoshone Nation or Tribe; Docket 367
Sioux Tribe of Cheyenne; Docket 114; 1963
Sioux Tribe of Crow Creek Reservation; Docket 115
Sioux Tribe of Lower Brule; Docket 116
Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge Reservation; Docket 117
Sioux Tribe of Rosebud Reservation; Docket 118
Sioux Tribe of Standing Rock Reservation; Docket 119
Six Nations; Docket 344; 1963
Skokomish Tribe of Indians; Docket 296; 1959, 1961
Snoqualmie Tribe of Indians; Docket 93; 1960
Spokane Tribe; Docket 331; 1961
Steilacoom Tribe; Docket 208; 1962
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians, also referred to as Western (Old Settler) Cherokee; Docket 43; 1955
Yakima Tribe; Docket 161; 1963
Yakima Tribe; Docket 162; 1965
box 4
Claims and appeals for combined tribes or nations Subseries 3.2 1955-1965
Red Lake Band; Docket 18-E; 1959
Ottawa & Chippewa of Michigan; Docket 58
Citizen Band of Potawatomi; Docket 146; 1964
Potawatomi Tribe; Docket 15-M
Robert Dominic (Ottawa Chippewa); Docket 40-K
Quileute Tribe; Docket 1955; 1962
Quinaielt Tribe of Indians; Docket 241
Sioux Tribe of Indians; Docket 74; 1965
Chippewa Cree Tribe; Docket 221-A
Yankton Sioux Tribe; Docket 332-A
Fort Berthold Reservation Tribes; Docket 350-B & C
Red Lake; Docket 113; 1961
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa; Docket 191
Little Shell Band of Chippewa; Docket 18-A