1845 Senate report concerning Frances Slocum, former Indian captive, the Miami Indians, and Miami tribal annuities.

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Frances Slocum and the Senate Petition for Miami Tribal Rights, 1845

This 4-page Senate report addresses a petition by Frances Slocum, a white woman taken captive as a child during the Revolutionary era and later adopted into the Miami Nation. By 1845, Slocum had lived for over forty years as a tribal member in Indiana, raising a large family with her Miami husband. The report speaks of the events specific to her captivity and advocates for the payment of treaty annuities to her and her descendants in Indiana rather than forcing relocation west of the Mississippi.

Titled as issued: In Senate of the United States. February 21, 1845. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. White made the following Report: [To accompany joint resolution H. R. 68.] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the joint resolution from the House of Representatives for the benefit of Frances Slocum and her children and grandchildren, of the Miami tribe of Indians, report….

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