Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 122-130
Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 122-130
Cherokee
Delaware Indian Allotments
This collection provides the names of Delaware and Cherokee Indians involved in the segregation and allotment of lands in the Cherokee Nation to the Delaware Indians. It also provides a comprehensive history with supporting documentation of the actions taken. For those researchers attempting to identify their ancestor in the Final Rolls, this may help identify the card number for your ancestor. After you find your ancestor listed on these pages, make a note of the Card Number, and go to the Final Roll Database and search there. Put OS (Old Settler or Old Series) in front of the Card Number and search.
1828 Abstracts of the Cherokee Phoenix
Abstract information that pertained to the Nation or surrounding environs TN, AL, GA, NC, and SC. Page 3 – 28 February 1828 DIED – At Tellico, Ten. on the first inst. of consumption, the Rev. RICHARD NEALY, age d 26 years, formerly a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church, and late a citizen of the
The Keetoowah Society
On January 31st, 1899, a general election was held for the purpose of determining on what is known as the Dawes Commission Treaty. The Full-bloods lost by two thousand fifteen votes. The Keetoowah Society were united in their opposition to the allotment of lands and dissolution of their government, but a part of them saw
History of the Cherokee Executive Council
To fulfill these purposes the Cherokee Executive Council was organized, with the following members: Cherokee Executive Council W. Tate Brady, Chairman of Executive Counsel W. M. Gulager, Secretary Keetoowahs Incorporated John B. Smith, Tahlequah, Oklahoma Robert Meigs, Parkhill, Oklahoma Rider Ratler, Lyons, Oklahoma Peter Cramp, Porum, Oklahoma Isaac Greece, Tahlequah, Oklahoma For the Eastern and
Redbird Smith
Biography of Redbird Smith, who was the moving spirit of the Nighthawk branch of the Keetoowah Society of Full-blood Cherokees.
Biographies of the Cherokee Indians
Whatever may be their origins in antiquity, the Cherokees are generally thought to be a Southeastern tribe, with roots in Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, among other states, though many Cherokees are identified today with Oklahoma, to which they had been forcibly removed by treaty in the 1830s, or with the lands of the Eastern
Cherokee Indian Tribe Photo Descriptions
This article contains the Cherokee photo descriptions from the Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey, F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
Medicine Bag of my Forefathers
I now fell heir to the great medicine bag of my forefathers, which had belonged to my father. I took it, buried our dead, and returned with my party, sad and sorrowful, to our village, in consequence of the loss of my father. Owing to this misfortune I blacked my face, fasted and prayed to
John Ross, Cherokee Chief
John Ross, on his mother’s side, was of Scotch descent. His grandfather, John McDonald, was born at Inverness, Scotland, about 1747. Visiting London when a youth of nineteen years, he met a countryman who was coming to America, and catching the spirit of adventure, he joined him, landing in Charleston, S. C., in 1766. While