Indian land for sale
get a home of your own, easy payments. Perfect title. Possession within thirty days. Fine lands in the West
Fisher, Walter L. (Walter Lowrie),
1862-1935
Valentine, Robert G. (Robert Grosvenor),
1872-1916
United States.
Department of the Interior,
issuing body
Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
text
government publication
text
still image
Broadsides-1910-1920.
xxu
1911
monographic
[United States]
[Publisher not identified],
publisher
[1911]
eng
1 broadside : 1 illustration ; 62 x 49 cm
Broadside advertises upcoming land sale by sealed bid allotted by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. Average sales amount per acre and number of acres sold in 1910 are listed for Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Interested parties are requested to write for booklet "Indian Lands for Sale" to the Superintendent U.S. Indian School at a number of places within listed states. Signed at end by Walter L. Fisher, Secretary of the Interior and Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Illustrated with a half front portrait of Padani-Kokipa-Sni (Not Afraid of Pawnee) of the Yankton Indian tribe in native dress wearing a two eagle feather hair charm. Image is also reproduced from a photograph taken by De Lancey Gill.
No known restrictions on publication.
Title from caption from item.
"For the year 1911 it is estimated that 350,000 acres will be offered for sale".
Image published in: Montana: Stories of the Land / written by Krys Holmes, with Sue Dailey, teacher consultant; and Dave Walter, historian (Helena : Montana Historical Society Press, 2008), page 220.
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Padani-Kokipa-Sni
Portraits
Indians of North America
Land tenure
Public lands
West (U.S.)
History
Sources
Broadside portfolio 240 no. 24
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.24002400
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