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 2 Collections and/or Records:
An act to define the status of freedmen
Digital Image
Identifier: E99.C5 C42 1881z Milam Ovrsz
An act to define the status of freedmen and their descendants now resident in the Cherokee Nation and who were slaves in the country at the commencement of the rebellion, approximately 1881
Collection
Identifier: E99.C5-C42 1881z
Scope and Contents
Handwritten document which seeks to establish that all freedmen who were resident in the Cherokee Nation at the commencement of the American Civil War and who were at that time slaves of any Cherokee or other citizen and were liberated by voluntary act or by law but who did not necessarily return to the Cherokee country within the time specified within the treaty of 1866, be granted the same rights and privileges as other adopted citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Although the document was...
Dates:
approximately 1881