This microfilm publication reproduces selected letters
received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1851-1905, relating to
the Cherokee of North Carolina, the establishment of their
reserves, and related litigation. This file reflects the office's
somewhat sporadic involvement in matters concerning the North
Carolina Cherokee. For this reason, for some years, the file
contains few or no records.

The office used two filing systems to arrange the records
reproduced here. Letters received during 1851-75 are arranged by
year, there under alphabetically by the correspondent's surname or
the name of the organization, and thereunder numerically by
register number. Letters received after 1875 are arranged by
year, there under alphabetically by the writer's surname or by
subject, and there under chronologically by the date received.Roll Dates
1 1851 and 1853-56
2 1857, 1859, 1868-69, 1872-75, and 1881-83
3 1884-85
4 1886-88
5 1889-93
6 1894-97
7 1898-1905 and undated

Records of the Dakota Superintendency, 1861-1870 and 1877-1878, and the Wyoming Superintendency, 1870. M1016. 13 rolls. DP.Roll Description Dates
Dakota Superintendency:
1 Letters received and accounts 1861-63
2 Letters received and accounts 1864-65
3 Letters received and accounts 1866
4 Letters received and accounts 1867
5 Letters received 1868
6 Letters received from the 1869
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and from the Cheyenne River,
Crow Creek (Upper Missouri),
Fort Berthold, and Grand River
Agents
7 Letters received from the 1869
Ponca, Whetstone, and Yankton
Agents; miscellaneous letters
received; monthly statements
of letters received; tabular
statements of funds remitted
to the Superintendent
8 Letters received from the 1870
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and from the Cheyenne River,
Crow Creek (Upper Missouri),
Fort Berthold, and Grand River
Agents
9 Letters received from the Ponca, 1869
Whetstone, and Yankton Agents;
miscellaneous letters received;
tabular statements of funds
remitted to the Superintendent
10 Miscellaneous records relating 1873 and 1876
to Indian matters in Dakota
Letters received from the 1877-78
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Accounts 1877-78
11 Unbound copies of letters sent 1861-66
12 Letters sent 1865-70
13 Letters sent 1877-78
Wyoming Superintendency:
Letters sent and endorsements 1870

Records of the Idaho Superintendency, 1863-1870. M832. 3 rolls.