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Lot includes 2 contracts signed by a Santee Dakota physician Charles A. Eastman and one typed letter signed by Indian Agent John McAdams Webster. Contract dated October 1914 between Marion Butler and Josiah Vale (party of the first part) and Doctor Charles A. Eastman, attorney for Santee Sioux (party of the second part). Concerning compensation for prosecuting the claim of the Santee for restoration of annuities under the treaties of 1837 and 1851. Second contract dated 7 May 1917 between Victor J. Evans (1st part) and Charles A. Eastman (2nd part) concerning compensation to assist in prosecution of claims of the Sioux Indians against the Government of the United States. Manuscript addendum dated 15 Feb. 1922 signed by Eastman stating that the agreed upon compensation was paid and the contract was now rescinded. TDS, Colville Agency, Miles, Wash., June 13, 1907. Settlement of the estate of Mistaca (d. Jan. 1906) and Mrs. Mistaca (d. June 1906). The couple died without children. The first part of the document gives an extensive family history, concluding: "...the Mistaca homestead will descend according to the laws of the State of Washington to the following persons: - 1/2 to John Joseph by right of representation thru his father, Shel-its-to, brother to Mistaca 1/2 to Mrs. Mistaca's heirs, divided as follows: 1/12 to Pierre Paul 1/12 to Mas-se-ahl's boy (both of these thru Mrs. Chil-cha-um, sister to Mrs. Mistaca 1/6 to Spa-pa-sheena, sister to Mrs. Mistaca 1/6 to Tom Pay-ette, brother to Mrs. Mistaca." Signed Jno. McA Webster, Captain U.S.A. Indian Agent. TLS, May 6, 1902. On Post Office Dept., Washington letterhead. To Mr. Adams from May Buckley. "Enclosed you will find my bill for the money owed me by the Company. I haven't sent it before because I have not needed it but now I am going to go over to Baltimore to pay a few days visit and have to get me something to wear -- you now that is always the cry with women....If it is not convenient to you to send me all of the money now I can wait a little while for the rest of it but I have to have ten dollars -- got to get that dress, you know, right away." Partially printed DS, Washington, DC, 212 May 1912. Certifying that the annexed "are true photographic reproductions of original papers on file." Signed A. Pitt Andrew, Asst. Sec. of the Treasury. Paper seal and ribbons intact. TLS, 1p, on White House letterhead, Nov. 16, 1916. To Daniel Henderson, signed J. P. Turney, Secretary to the President. acknowledging receipt of letter from the Chippewa Tribe. TLS, 1p, on Congressional (HR) letterhead from the office of Robert E. Evans, Nebraska Rep. to Dr. Chas. Eastman. "There is in my office at this time...members of the Santee band of Sioux Indians, and I am unable to fully understand just what the situation is that they are endeavoring to explain to me." He gives a summary of the case as he understands it, but... "Will you please write me immediately, ...Giving me the facts relative to this case, and to your reason for wishing to have something else done and what it is you think ought to be done?" There are five additional letters to Daniel Henderson: Chas. L. Richards (HR, Nevada), Oct. 3rd, 1923 (about a claim by the Assiniboine Tribe); H.L. Myers, 7 March 1912, on Senate letterhead, about introducing the bill for the Assiniboine Indians; H.L. Myers, 11 Feb. 1913, on Senate letterhead, requesting his current address; Scott Leavitt (HR, Montana), 21 Dec. 1923, on HR letterhead (will be willing to discuss Fort Belknap Indians); and T.J. Walsh, Committee on Naval Affairs letterhead, 7 Nov. 1923 (re: securing an allotment on Fort Belknap Res.). Daniel Brosius Henderson, Sr. (1862-1940) spent the bulk of his career litigating on behalf of America's Native peoples. He was born in Hancock, Maryland, attended the University of Virginia, and by the late 1800s had established a law practice in Kansas City, Missouri. After more than a decade in Missouri, Henderson and his growing family re