These legal documents, including an indictment and arrest warrants, relate to the case of the United States versus Carlton Douglass. Douglass was accused of selling liquor to Thomas Lafontaine, a member of the Miami Tribe, on November 20, 1859 on Miami Tribal Land in the Kansas Territory. Douglass was arrested on December 12, 1859 by Marshal Philip J. Colby. In the mid-19th century, the Miami Nation was relocated to a reservation in Lykins (present-day Miami) and Linn Counties in Kansas and later to Oklahoma.
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