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Hello everyone,
I wonder if any of you can help me with my question? I have copy of a document that states that states that my G. Grandfather, Milo Sylvester Groat was ‘given and granted’ land in Minnesota.
Part of the document reads, “Now Know ye that the United States of America, in consideration of the premisis, and the conformity with the several acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presence do GIVE AND GRANT, unto said Milo S. Groat and to his heirs, the said track above described:….”
So, is this a land grant? I found the information also on the Land Patent Report on the internet that refers to this transaction as a cash entry Sale. But no money was exchanged.
So what I’m wondering is, could this possibly be a land grant that they took instead of going to a reservation? The land is right tween White Earth and Great Leech Lake reservations (according to an old map I have a copy of.
So, could this possibly have been a land grant to my G. Grandparents because they were NA as an alternative to living on the Res?
According to my father, our family’s oral history has it that my Grandmother, Elsie May Groat, was born on a reservation in 1900 and drank mares milk. I am beginning to believe it since the state doesn’t have any record of her birth. No birth certificate. But then, the birth certificates wern’t made into law until 1900 and then they weren’t enforced until 1910. At least that is what I read somewhere.
So, what do y’all think? Was the government giving land grants to Indians in Minnesota at that time? Were there even reservations there at that time?
I have also read (but can’t remember where) that once an Indian took a land grant as an option, they were no longer considered Indians by the government. After that they were refered to as white or black race. Has anyone else heard this?
I will try to research this myself too, but I thought I’d throw it on the table to see if anyone here has any information first. 🙂
Thanks in advance. Barb G
It depends upon whether you are referring to Federal or State Land Grants and both were different from the “Personal Reservation” provisions that I think part of your premise is based upon. Although the PRs were ‘administered’ by the Federal BIA, the PRs should not be confused with the ‘general’ understanding of the ‘Reservation’ system as most people think of ‘reservations’ since the PRs were individual specific, not group specific.
As to Birth, Marriage, Death, Land, Will Probate and State Court record requirements, it would depend upon the county to which you are referring. Some of the above ‘activity’ categories were required as early as 1850 in some Minnesota counties.
Bear in mind that just because a state or county government required a specific act be reported, the enforcement of such ‘requirements’ were spotty at best in those days.
Bill
Hi Bill, 🙂
Can you explain this to me a little? I don’t understant what you are saying.
This Grant was Signed by Theodore Roosevelt July 27, 1904. So this would be a Federal Land Grant. Correct?
Also, what do you mean by “Personal Reservation” provision?
Thanks 🙂 Barb
Originally posted by Bill Childs
It depends upon whether you are referring to Federal or State Land Grants and both were different from the “Personal Reservation” provisions that I think part of your premise is based upon. Although the PRs were ‘administered’ by the Federal BIA, the PRs should not be confused with the ‘general’ understanding of the ‘Reservation’ system as most people think of ‘reservations’ since the PRs were individual specific, not group specific. “
As an ‘official’ ‘citizen’ (i.e., non-tribal) Indian, you could buy land thru the Feds, say 80 acres, and it could then be designated a Federally recognized ‘Personal Reservation’ if those Fed. requirements were met, and so long as it was never sold to a non-native, it remained a Federally designated ‘reservation’ with most of the same ‘benefits’ of what most people understand a “Reservation” to have been or be.
Bill
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