However, if anyone out there has the time and energy to browse s.c.n and
pass on the most interesting of what you find out there, I can set up an
automatic feed of that newsgroup to a volunteer who would then mail items
that seem worth having on NATIVE-L or another of the NativeNet newsgroups
to a special address that would inject those articles into our mailing
list stream.
Please get in touch with me (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us) if you think you might
be interested in this idea.
Thanks.
Gary
--Last Wednesday (14 December) phyde@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca (Peter Hyde) wrote:
> REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
> I am currently doing genealogical research on behalf of some of the > descendants of Big Bear's Band and need some help in locating a US statute. > Some background.... > In 1876 the Crown signed Treaty #6 with members of various Plains and > Woodland Cree bands living in what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. Big > Bear refused to sign, and held out until his band was starving in 1882, at > which time he signed in order to receive rations. In 1885 some of Big Bear's > band were involved in an altercation at Frog Lake. As a result of that, and > the Riel uprising, many members of his band fled to Montana. Big Bear > himself was tried and jailed. Official records of his band therefore exist > for only the years 1882 - 1885...
Here's the reply from Usenet:
~From: dmc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Denise Coles) ~Reply-To: dc@nwu.edu (Denise Coles) ~Newsgroups: soc.culture.native,alt.native ~Subject: Re: Deportation of the British Cree statute ~Date: 15 Dec 94 22:42:05 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-Id: <dmc.787531325@casbah>
Also, in Statutes at Large from 1896, (54th Congress, Session 1) Chap. 175 is entitled "An Act making provision for the deportation of refugee Canadian Cree Indians from the State of Montana and their delivery to the Canadian Authorities." It's on page 117.
I hope this helps--if you need more info, let me know.
Denise dc@nwu.edu (Government Publications and Map Dept., Northwestern University Library)
~From: dmc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Denise Coles) ~Reply-To: dc@nwu.edu (Denise Coles) ~Newsgroups: soc.culture.native,alt.native ~Subject: Re: Deportation of the British Cree statute ~Date: 16 Dec 94 20:30:28 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-Id: <dmc.787609828@casbah>
I don't think this part of what I had written before made it on to the net. I still haven't completely gotten the hang of posting from this newsreader. I tried sending this directly to the requestor (now that I know who it was) but it comes back as undeliverable. My apologies if this did make it before and shows up twice.
>Senate report 821 covers the "Delivery of refugee Cree Indians to Canada" and >is dated April 29, 1896. It is from the 54th Congress, 1st session and is in >U.S. Serials set volume 3365. Unfortunately I don't have access to the >original article so I don't know where the requester was posting from, but >many of the bigger U.S. depository libraries should have the serials set, if >only on fiche (we have it in hardcopy--it's great!). The report is 7 pages >long and was submitted by "Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign >Relations".
There are a lot of letters from various state, federal, and British officials in the report.
I hope this helps--if you need more info, let me know.
Denise Coles Government Publications and Map Dept. Northwestern University Library Evanston, IL dc@nwu.edu
-- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,cdp}!gnosys!gst