The Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Revisiting the Key to the United States Congressional Serial Set, 1824–1920

Authors

Charles D. Bernholz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Anthony G. Carr, Farmington Public Library, Farmington, NMFollow

Date of this Version

7-2009

Comments

Published in Government Information Quarterly 26:3 (July 2009), pp. 540–545; doi 10.1016/j.giq.2008.01.008 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. Used by permission. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf

Abstract

The Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the years 1824 through 1920, described the interactions between the American Indian tribes and the federal government. J. A. Jones (Jones, J. A. (1955). Key to the annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Ethnohistory, 2, 58–64) provided a key to these documents found in the United States Congressional Serial Set, but this tool contained a number of errors. This article provides a fresh look at this key, with particular focus upon the availability of these materials through the Readex Serial Set digital collection.