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Executive Order—Establishment of Yuma Indian Reservation in California

January 09, 1873

Executive Mansion, January 9, 1873. 

Let the lands described in the within letter be set apart as a reservation for the bands of Indians in California therein named, agreeably to the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of the Interior. 

U. S. Grant.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO,9 1904, p 831

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Establishment of Yuma Indian Reservation in California Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371199

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