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A muster roll of Cherokee Indians who emigrated to the west of the Mississippi in the years 1831-1834

Collection

Identifier: E99.C5-M87 1834

Scope and Contents A small group of photostatic copies of muster rolls pertaining to the removal of the Cherokee Indians in the 1830s. Included are: A muster roll of Cherokee Indians who emigrated to the west in the years 1832 & 3 all of which received the commutation allowance by the govt. ; A muster roll of Cherokee Indians who emigrated to the west of the Mississippi in the years 1831 & 2 -- those who did not receive the commutation allowance by the government set out on the 14th April 1832 under...

Dates: 1831 - 1834

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina letter from the Secretary of the Interior in response to resolution of the House of February 25, 1882, relative to the lands and funds of the Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees.

Item

Identifier: E99.C5-U53 1882

Content Description

Report prepared in the office of H. Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. "May 11, 1882.--Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed." This copy is imperfect: pages 20-54 and maps lacking; pages have been separated and pasted onto sheets of legal-size writing paper with extensive handwritten notes throughout.

Dates: 1882

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981

Collection

Identifier: 1975-006

Scope and Contents 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...

Dates: 1724 - 1981

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

John M. Oskison manuscript of Unconquerable:

Item

Identifier: E99.C5-O85 1936 Ovrsz

Scope and Contents

Unconquerable: The story of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees. Typed manuscript with handwritten corrections of John Oskison's unpublished biography of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866. Together with the manuscript is a check for 25 dollars from J.B. Milam to John Oskison dated 1943, presumably in payment for the manuscript.

Dates: 1936

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Medicine Formulas in Cherokee, approximately 1918

Item

Identifier: E99.C5-U94-1940z

Content Description

Cherokee medicine formulary attributed to Uwedasat, also known as John Campbell, a highly regarded Oklahoma medicine man. Dick Still is written in the back.

Dates: approximately 1918

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Rufus Cochran Formula Book, Undated

Item

Identifier: MC-1964-46

Scope and Contents

According to a brief notation, this small notebook contains several pages of medical formulas all written in Cherokee by Rufus Cochran.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

Thanktgvinh proclamation Executive department, Cherokee Nation, I.T. : to the Cherokee people, 1886-11-13

Item

Identifier: E99.C5-C427 1886z

Content Description

A proclamation from the principal chief of the Cherokees naming November 25, 1886 as 'a day of thanksgiving and general praise.'

Dates: 1886-11-13

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Vann family archive, 1875-1975

Collection

Identifier: 2006-011

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence, ledgers, photographs, much dealing with Herman Johnson Vann, and his immediate family and business.

Dates: 1875 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1900

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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A muster roll of Cherokee Indians who emigrated to the west of the Mississippi in the years 1831-1834

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

Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina letter from the Secretary of the Interior in response to resolution of the House of February 25, 1882, relative to the lands and funds of the Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees.

Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981

John M. Oskison manuscript of Unconquerable:

Medicine Formulas in Cherokee, approximately 1918

Rufus Cochran Formula Book, Undated

Thanktgvinh proclamation Executive department, Cherokee Nation, I.T. : to the Cherokee people, 1886-11-13

Vann family archive, 1875-1975

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