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Letter from Thomas McKinney, agent of Indian Affairs, concerning the plan to establish an Indian school at Great Crossings in Scott County, Kentucky, as set forth by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, and affairs of the Indian Agency at Chicago.

Note adding the amount of issues to Native Americans for the months of July, August, and September, 1817

Letter from Richard Mentor Johnson discusses the school at Blue Springs, Kentucky, established by the Choctaws and other tribes, and educating the Indians with government money that belongs to them per the Treaty, and Johnson sending supplies to the…

Arthur Campbell's 29 December 1787 letter to John Brown discusses a "vast multitude" of immigrants passing into Kentucky with little resistance from Native Americans. Campbell warns that the peace may not last long and he expects frequent attacks…