Watergate Report Senate Committee Findings, Vol. 1

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827 by Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires updates every year, and those reports are available to the public. In 1827, the Office of Indian Affairs was still under the War Department and did not publish the Superintendent's report as a separate document. The advantage to this is that---unlike in later years when the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the individual reports from Indian agents was published separately---we can hear two of the diverse sides of the complicated story of the relationships of the various offices within the US government, various Native American tribes, and US citizens. The New York Public Library extracted these documents into a separate volume. Keep in mind that these reports were written as argumentative or persuasive pieces.

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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837 by Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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.

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report by National Gambling Impact Study Commission.

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Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack by United States Senate.

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Inquiry into Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan by US Senate Committee on Armed Services.

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