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Indian reservation police

LC control no.sh 95003106
LC classificationE98.C87 North America and United States
Topical headingIndian reservation police
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Variant(s)Indian agency police
Indian police force
Reservation police forces
See alsoPolice
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Scope noteHere are entered works on police, working for the United States government or an Indian tribe, exercising their duties on Indian reservations or in Indian country.
Found inWork cat.: Account of Patrick H. Winston, Jr., 1887: p. 2, etc. (a United States Indian policeman; Indian police on the reservation)
LC database, April 12, 1995 (Indian police)
Indian police and judges, 1966: p. 39, etc. (agency police; reservation police forces)
The Office of Indian Affairs, 1927: p. 262 (Indian police force "to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in intoxicating liquor on the several Indian reservations" authorized by the act of May 27, 1878; this police force is Indian both in composition and duties, only a few white men have occasionally been appointed as officers)