Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827

LibriVox recording of Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827 by Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. 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 Com