Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
DeWitt Clinton Lipe - Cherokee Strip papers, 1870-1913
Collection
Identifier: 1991-001
Scope and Contents
The DeWitt Lipe - Cherokee Strip Papers consist of autographs, autograph transcriptions, and typescript letters and documents of DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. In general, the papers related to the Cherokee Nation's taxation and licensing requirements of Texas stockmen who grazed cattle on Indian lands west of the Arkansas River, known as the Cherokee Strip, on their way to the Kansas stockyards. Also included in the papers are various acts and resolutions relating to the...
Dates:
1870 - 1913
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Copy book 1836-1888
Digital Work
Identifier: E99.C5 C67 1836 Milam Oversize
Dates:
1863 - 1888
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
Georgia, State of; Land Grant, 1833-01-31
File — Box 4, Folder: 7a
Identifier: 1989.002.1.4.7
Scope and Contents
Plat representing a Land grant of 160 acres drawn by Samuel Coats, Burges Disrict Carroll County, for lot 299, 24th District, 3rd section in Cherokee County surveyed May 28, 1832 and granted January 31, 1833.
Related press cuttings.
Dates:
Issued: 1833-01-31
J. B. (Jesse Bartley) Milam papers, 1925-1950
Collection
Identifier: 1989-002
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and personal papers consisting of correspondence between Milam and various individuals, and national and local organizations and institutions, as well as the U.S. Interior Department Bureau of Indian Affairs and various members of Congress. Although some of the material dates from as early as 1906, the preponderance of the correspondence relates to Milam’s activities and responsibilities as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1941-1949. Included in this series are...
Dates:
1925 - 1950
Map of the Cherokee Strip, Undated
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: A000023243200], Folder: 5
Identifier: 1975.006.3.Cherokee.099
Scope and Contents
Map of the Cherokee Strip, IT leased by the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association from the Cherokee Natoin.
Dates:
Undated