Here we shift our attention to Record Group 46, records of the United States Senate. I scanned through many of the transfer documents to the Senate from the Department of the Interior and the   War Department and found many related to Indians in Oregon. These documents may be wholey or partly in the Congressional Serial Set, that we have in the Knight Library, but I liked the handwritten nature of these original transfer documents. Including them in the SWORP collection creates another layer to the types of records at our disposal in one location. This example, from 1859, talks about the creation of three superintendencies for the supervision of Indians, where once there was only one. The plan here is one each for Oregon and Washington, west of the Cascade Range, and one for all the country to the east in the territories. The implications of this could be that there would then have been a change in policy and politics for Indian people separated by these arbitrary divisions.

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