Bourbonnais Government Documents
Date1865 - 1971
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.7.256-392
Description2005.7 Bourbonnais Family Manuscripts2005.7_4 Government Documents [Bourbonnais]
•Letter from the United States Department of Interior to Mr. Carroll S. Bourbonnais, ref: Bourbonnais family information and degree of Catherine Peltier Bourbonnais.
•Letter from the Dept. of the Interior to Mosos Neal US Indian Agent, Sac and Fox Agency I.T., ref: claim made by Citizen Band of Potawatomies in I.T. requesting appropriated funds, A. Bourbonnais Chairman of a council held by CBP, dated Nov. 8, 1886.
•Letter from the Dept. of the Interior to Thomas J. Rhodd, dated Nov, 29, 1968, ref: degree of Indian blood, with attachment of Alexander Rhodd CP 219 and his descendants.
•Letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: probate of Aron Bourbonnais CP 469 with accompanying records of Aron Bourbonnais and John A Bourbonnais.
•Letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: Shawnee Indian School, dated Oct. 14, 1908; Anthony Bourbonnais, Thomas and David Hardin allotment applications; dated Sept, 20,1890, ref: John A Bourbonnais and son Gabriel claim for allotment; dated May 22, 1891, death of Benjamin Bourbonnais;
•Document from the Dept. of the Interior ref: check approval for heirs of Alexander Peltier.
•Order to determine heirs’ letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: Anthony Bourbonnais Jr.; dates range from 1955, and letter from Interior dated Dec, 21. 1894 ref: to Mary Bourbonnais.
•Letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: Heirs of John A. Bourbonnais and son Gabriel Bourbonnais
•Letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: to Mr. Carroll S. Bourbonnais, dated July 5, 1979, Bourbonnais family history; Mary Baldwin CP 90 estate heirs.
•Letters and documents from the Dept. of the Interior ref: Mary Baldwin dated Oct. 25, 1893.
•Letter from Wagoza Pott. Nat. Ind. Territory , dated May 9, 1883ref: request from tribe to J.V. Carter, U.S. Ind. Agent, Sac and Fox Agency I. T. referencing request that white husbands married to tribal women should not be allowed to enroll as a tribal member and or gain allotment , this was the practice of Special Agent Townsend.
•Two letters from Pottawatomi Agency, Feb. 11, 1856 and Feb. 22, 1856 ref: Catish Bourbonnais claims on sums owed on land sold.
•Photocopies of research note cards of E. David Edmunds ref: early history information of times of allotment for the Citizen Band Potawatomi.
•Photocopy, Survey of Conditions of Indians in United States pages 7197-7199.
•Incomplete heir determination documents, parents of Descendent, Isaac Rice and Ke-by (pott.) appears to be concerning Mary Baldwin.
•Document Heirship Interests, Anthony Bourbonnais Sr., Catherine Peltier Bourbonnais.
•Report on Heirship of Mamie Bourbonnais Hoy.
•Family record may be copied from bible or family book with births, deaths, and marriages of the family of Mary Margaret Bourbonnais Dike family, copy of obituary of Reed William Dike,
•Letter from the United States Indian Service, Sac and Fox Indian Agency, April 4, 1894, ref: John a Bourbonnais and on S. L. Twiss squatter to be removed from land
•Summary of Family History and Inventory of the estate of Frank E. Bourbonnais.
•Record sent to the Secretary of the Interior on the Estate of Mary A. Baldwin, dated Dec. 19, 1917, depositions, and heirship cards, and allotment index cards.
•Index and Heirship Card enrollee: Mamie Bourbonnais Hoy, Lorene Bourbonnais, John A. Bourbonnais.
•Court Affidavit by Nicholas Trombla , ref: blood quantum of Frank Bourbonnais Jr. son of Frank Sr. and Zoa Rhodd.
•Deposition by John T. Hoy, in the matter of the estate of Mamie Bourbonnais Hoy
•From the 1887 Citizen Band Potawatomi allotment family information associated with allotee. Page230-231.
•Photocopy of affidavit sign by many tribal members in unison to declare falsity of charges brought up against Agent Murphy by A.A. Bertrand, Joseph N. Bourassa, A. Navarre, dated July 13, 1858.
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