Documents of Native American Political Development: 1500s to 1933

Acknowledgments. List of Native Peoples. List of Documents by Subject. Introduction. Documents:. 1. Great Law of Peace, Gayanashagowa (1000--1525?). 2. Laws of Praying Town Indians (1646). 3. Laws of the Cherokee Nation (1808-1817). 4. The Criminal Code of Tenskwatawa (Shawnee Prophet) (1805?). 5. Laws of the Creek Nation (1817-1824). 6. Cherokee Constitution (1827). 7. Description of Winnebago Government by Caleb Atwater, U.S. Commissioner (1829). 8. Laws of the Nez Perce (1844). 9. Constitutional Ordinance of the Seneca Nation (1845). 10. Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians (1848). 11. Organization of A New Indian Territory, by George Copway (1850). 12. Ottawa Laws (1850). 13. Constitution of the "Government by Chiefs" of the Seneca Nation of Indians (1854). 14. Chickasaw Nation Constitution (1856). 15. Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe Articles of Union and Confederation (1857). 16. "Proclamation" of Neutrality by John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1861). 17. Laws of the Delaware Nation (1866). 18. Winnebago Tribe Laws and Regulations (1868). 19. Okmulgee Constitution (1870). 20. Howard White, U.S. Indian Agent for the Winnebago Agency (1872). 21. John S. Wood, U.S. Indian Agent for the Blackfeet Agency (1875). 22. J .L. Burchard, U.S. Indian Agent for the Round Valley Reservation (1876). 23. Alex G. Irvine, Navajo Indian Agency (1877). 24. Objectives of the Indian Delegation to a Bill Authorizing an "Indian Delegate" to the U.S. House of Representatives (1878). 25. W. Bird, Agent of the Fort Peck Indian Agency (1878). 26. Benjamin M. Thomas, Agent at the Pueblo and Abiquiu Agencies (1879). 27. John Young, Agent at Blackfeet Agency (1879). 28. Henry R. Mallory, Agent at Colorado River Agency (1879). 29. J. A. Stephen, Agent at Standing Rock Agency (1880). 30. P. B. Hunt, Agent at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency (1880). 31. Constitutions of the Osage Nation (1861, 1881). 32. Laws of the Osage Nation (1882). 33.