Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 122-130
Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 122-130
Cherokee
Letters and Forms No. 121
Letters and Forms No. 121
Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 101-110
Letters, Telegrams, Petitions 101-110
Delaware Exhibits
Delaware Exhibits
Answer of Defendant, Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Answer of Defendant, Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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 Cherokee Nation. At Coosewatee, KEELECHULE an aged member of the National Council. At Willstown, on the 18th inst. very suddenly, Rev. ARD HOYT, Missionary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. Page 3 – 6 March 1828 MURDER – We are informed of a murder … Read more
The Keetoowah Society
The Keetoowah Society played a pivotal role in the Cherokee Nation’s resistance to the Dawes Commission Treaty in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On January 31, 1899, a general election revealed a strong opposition among the Full-blood Cherokees, led by Redbird Smith, against the allotment of lands and the dissolution of their government. Despite the eventual acceptance of change by some members, Smith and his followers remained steadfast in their resistance until about 1910. Redbird Smith’s leadership as Chief of the Nighthawk Keetoowah Society, from 1908 until his death in 1918, focused on preserving Cherokee heritage, fostering unity, and promoting industrial and spiritual strength among his people. His vision for a unified and industrious Cherokee community continued to influence the Society’s direction even after his death.
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 Western: Watt Mayes, Pryor, Oklahoma E. N. Washbourne, Jay, Oklahoma James Hilderbrand, Bernice, Oklahoma J. R. McIntosh, Claremore, Okla Geo. Mayes, Pryor, Oklahoma Cherokee Personal Committee S. R. Lewis, Tulsa, Oklahoma W. T. Brady, Tulsa, Oklahoma W. M. Gulager, Muskogee, Oklahoma J. G. Sanders, Tulsa, … Read more
Nighthawk Keetoowah
Nighthawk Keetoowah
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 Band of Cherokees in western North Carolina. The largest of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which also included Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, the Cherokees were the first tribe to have a written language, and by 1820 they had even adopted a form of government … Read more
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.
Black Hawk as a Young Brave
Black Hawk as a Young Brave
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 the Great Spirit for five years, during which time I remained in a civil capacity, hunting and fishing. The Osages having again commenced aggressions on our people, and the Great Spirit having taken pity on me, I took a small party and went against them. I … Read more
Tooan Tuh or Spring Frog, Cherokee Chief
Tooan Tuh or Spring Frog, Cherokee Chief
Sequoyah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet
Sequoyah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet
Major Ridge, Cherokee Chief
Major Ridge, Cherokee Chief
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 here, he heard of a mercantile house in Augusta, Georgia, which attracted him thither, and he entered it as clerk. His success in business inspired confidence in his employers, who sent him to Fort Loudon, on the frontier of the State, built by the British … Read more