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Milam, Jesse Bartley, 1884-1949

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1884 - 1949

Biography

First Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation appointed by a U.S. President since tribal government had been dissolved before Oklahoma Statehood in 1907.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

A General Map of North America from the Best Authorities, 1785

 Item — Map-case 4, drawer: 1, map: 4
Identifier: 1500.026.4.1.4
Scope and Contents

Features Canada, Indian Tribal areas, natural features. Map also indicates some American states with the western parts of the continent largely unnamed. Plate XIV, G. G. J. and J. Robinson in a 1785 edition of Guthrie's A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar.


Handwritten note by J.B. Milam reads "Cherokees in northern North Carolina?" Another says "1798."

Dates: 1785

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