a This Act provided for comprehensive organization of the Indian Department. The Committee determined that the department at that time was "expensive, inefficient, and irresponsible" (Committee Report). The Act was an attempt to reorganize the Indian Department, provide sufficient legal authority to enact the laws, and restore tribal rights. To achieve this, the Act provided for: annuity payments directly to the chiefs; the hiring of Indians to staff the Indian Service; and the ability of the Indian Service to enforce the laws. One provision prohibited employees of the Indian Department from having any interest in trade with Indians, except for the United States. AMENDMENTS OF 1834 ACTS, AUTHORIZING TREATY PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUAL INDIANS Act of March 3, 1847. (9 Stat. 203) An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the better organization of the Department of Indian Affairs,” and an Act entitled "An Act to regulate Trade and intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve peace on the Frontiers, approved June 30, 1834, and for other purposes. This Act authorized payments to the Tribes to the heads of households, not the tribal officers. The Act viewed the tribe as an individual not a collective group. ACT ESTABLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR Act of March 3, 1849. (9 Stat. 395) An Act to establish the Home Department, and to provide for the Treasury Department an Assistant T OTHER INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS Act of March 27, 1854. (10 Stat. 269) o amend an Act entitled "An Act e the State of Arkansas into Two Districts," approved March the 51." S Act removed Indians ing various offenses against nonfrom federal court jurisdiction to l tribal law. PROPRIATIONS ACT OF 1865 Act of March 3, 1865. (13 Stat. 572) lution directing Inquiry into the on of the Indian tribes, and their ent by the Civil and Military Eties. e Appropriations resolution ed provisions which made it a to remove "cattle, horses, or other From the Indian Territory for the e of trade or commerce". This ion also directed an inquiry into atment of the Indian tribes. ESTABLISHING "INDIAN PEACE COMMISSION" (15 Stat. 17) An Act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian Tribes. This Act provided for the establishment of a Peace Commission to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes," were authorized by said act to call together the chiefs and headmen of such bands of Indians as were then waging war, for the purpose of ascertaining their reasons for hostility, and, if thought advisable, to make treaties with them. The policy called for more distinct reservation lines, provisions for education, annuities, land allotments, and food, until Indian communities could become self-supporting through agriculture and raising cattle. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BOARD OF An Act making Appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling Treaty Stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1870. This Act authorized the Board of Indian Commissions to act as a watchdog to put to an end the corruption and the mistreatment of the Indian tribes. Composed of 10 men, the board was to correct the mismanagement and handling i |