Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This artificial collection was brought together initially as the the old American Indian Law and History Collection from miscellaneous acquisitions that had accrued over twenty years of collecting. Later the collection's scope was broadened somewhat and the title was changed. It is presently a collection of historical documents, correspondence, photographs and ephemera relating to the governments, citizenship, and lands primarily of those tribes located in Oklahoma Indian Territory. The...

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Handwritten letter from Ephraim Martin Adair to an unknown recipient.

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Handwritten and signed letter from Ephraim Martin Adair to Mrs E.M. Adair, purported to be Louvina Jane Lewis, regarding family news and the Damson and McKee case.

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Handwritten and signed letter from Charles Thompson to Ephraim Martin Adair regardomg the case of Cherokee Nation vs. Too-tah-ah-ner Bigbullet for the murder of Solomon Townsend.

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Handwritten and signed letter from William F. Rasmus, Assistant Executive Secretary, to Ephraim Martin Adair regarding the appointment of David Landrum of the Delaware District as associate justice to the Supreme Court.

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Handwritten and signed letter from William Penn Adair (cousin to Adair) to Ephraim Martin Adair regarding bread money bill being passed by the Senate.

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Handwritten and signed letter fragment from William Penn Adair to Ephraim Martim Adair regarding Cherokee relations with the U.S. government.

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Handwritten and signed letter from Rev. Lewis Beamer to the Philadelphia American Baptist Publication Society regarding Cherokee hymn books.

Date incomplete.

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Handwritten and signed postcard from E.C.B., Fayettville (Ark.) to Colonel James Madison Bell, Caney's Ferry, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, regarding "unfortunate business."

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Handwritten and signed postcard from E.C.B., Fayetteville (Ark.) to Colonel James M. (Madison) Bell, Echo (I.T.).