Nadeau Government Documents
Date1800-1900
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.31.193-251
Description2005.31 Nadeau Family Manuscripts2005.31_5 Government Documents [Nadeau]
•2005.31.193 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; Business Committee of the Pott Citizens not well known in Washington, April 3, 1886 notes taken from letters dated 1867, 1870, and 1871. 1 pg.
•2005.31.194 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; handwritten notes on top card, Prairie Pott: reference for Blanden family history, Eli Nadeau and his business and family in Oklahoma. 1 pg.
•2005.31.195 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; Nadeau family business and history. 1 pg.
•2005.31.196 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research. 1 pg.
•2005.31.197 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; list of allottees to apply for Land Patents. 1 pg.
•2005.31.198 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; list of allottees to apply for Land Patents. 1 pg.
•2005.31.199 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; lists of Pott. Indians on agency payroll, and the sale of Pott. Lands around St. Mary’s. 1 pg.
•2005.31.200 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; Potawatomi Business committee notes on elections and business committee elections. 1 pg.
•2005.31.201 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; Prairie condition at this time report of the group’s holdings and successes. 1 pg.
•2005.31.202 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; Enumeration of the two bands, and numbers were lost. 1 pg.
•2005.31.203 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; notes from the Treaty of 1861: Indian Signatories to the Treaty and other information on this treaty. 1 pg.
•2005.31.204 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; pay roll list. 1 pg.
•2005.31.205 photocopy of resource cards for Potawatomi history research; quotes from “The Jesuits in the Kaw Valley” by O’Conner in reference to Pottawatomies established government; handwritten notes of Business Committee Citizen Band members. 1 pg.
•2005.31.206-210 group of documents: handwritten letter from the Department of the Interior April 17th 1878 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs reference to board and tuition of Mary and Becky Nadeau daughters of Eli Nadeau; letter from U. S. Department of the Interior Jan. 25, 1984 to Mrs. Zelda Hale in reference to grandchildren enrollment in Citizen Band Potawatomi and blood degree. 5 pgs.
•2005.31.211-112 two hand written letters (same hand) dated June 30, 1865 and June 20, 1865 both in reference to tribal government and grievance payment. 2 pgs.
•2005.31.213-219 group of documents: handwritten letter from the Treasury Department Oct. 24, 1855 in reference to Mary Nedo and claim of Treaty of Chicago Sept 1833; payment receipt for payment rendered as ferryman for the Pottawattamie Indians; photocopies of handwritten letter/affidavit/court documents naming Eli Nadeau a member for the Prairie Band Pottawatomie Indians for whom he is United States interpreter, other letters referenced Julia Ann Nadeau and her property claim due her from first husband Joseph Laughton. 7 pgs.
•2005.31.220 photocopy handwritten letter from Pottawatomie Agency Jan. 5, 1855 referencing claim of Mary Nedo and children from past treaties. 1 pg.
•2005.31.221 photocopy of letter from Potawatomie Agency Feb. 13, 1834, in reference to claim by Mary Nadeau from treaty of Chicago 1833. 1 pg.
•2005.31.222-224 photocopy of letter from Office Kansas Agency Pottawatomie Reserve Ks. June 23, 1879 in reference to board and tuition at Academy of the Sacred Heart at St. Mary’s Kansas for Nadeau children. 3 pgs.
•2005.31.225 photocopy of handwritten letter from Washington House, Washington D. C. March 1, 1879, to Commissioner of Indian Affairs in reference to children of Eli Nadeau and funding for Academy of the Sacred Heart conducted at St. Mary’s Kansas being paid. 1 pg.
•2005.31.226-228 photocopy of handwritten letter from Pottawatomie Agency KS, August 12, 1865 in reference to Potawatomi Kansas members and how citizenship would change their responsibilities to paying for business licenses. 3 pgs.
•2005.31.229-234 photocopy of handwritten letter from Washington D. c. Jan 21, 187? to the honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs request for certified copies for the certificates of the allotments made to listed individual tribal members as in letter, sur names include Nadeau, Bourassa, McDowell, Edwah- Ge-zhic, Pe-an-ish. 6 pgs.
•2005.31.235-238 photocopy of handwritten records for affidavit type documents as character reference information from individuals for Agent William E. Murphy of the Pottawatomie Agency Kansas in 1859. 4 pgs.
•2005.31.239 photocopy of document from the United States of America Patent for a partition of the allotment property of Almira C. Bayliss and trust patent issued to Laura I. Nedeau for 24 years. 1 pg.
•2005.31.240-241 photocopy of handwritten document from the undersigned members of the Potawatomie Tribe of Indians in the vicinity of Saint Mary’s Mission against the character of W. E. Murphy Indian agent. 2 pgs.
•2005.31.242 -244 photocopy of will of Rena E. Hollingsworth, November 20, 1962. 3 pgs.
•2005.31.245-247 Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Apr. 24, 1914, Approval of heirship to estate of William Martelle. 3 pgs.
•2005.31.248 group of documents: photocopy letter from the Department of the Interior Sept. 29, 1914 regarding estate for Jerome Martelle; photocopy of letter from Department of Interior July 24, 1890 in reference to claims of Andrew and Basil Neddo, their descendants being able to receive Citizen Band Potawatomi allotment in Oklahoma; affidavit from Amanda Neddeau dated Jan. 18, 1951 for information on Otto Barshaw son of Charles Barshaw sometimes known as Bergeron and Alice E. Barshaw. 4 pgs.
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