Choctaw Indians.

Cyrus Byington Papers, 1819-1868

Collection

Identifier: MC-1954-28

Scope and Contents Over 300 letters, mostly concerned with Cyrus Byington's family matters, contain news of weather, missions, and missionaries. In addition to the originals, there are transcripts made by Grant Foreman. These documents include a manuscript draft of Byington's Choctaw grammar, an 1870 published edition of the grammar and an 1852 edition of the English and Choctaw Definer.There is a sixty-page transcript of an 1862-63 diary (original at Smithsonian), notes of Peter Hudson (Choctaw)...

Dates: 1819 - 1868

Found in: Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

Distribution of Property, 1914-11

Item — Box 2: [Barcode: A000020957230], Folder: 3

Identifier: 1975.006.1.Choctaw.028

Scope and Contents

Carbon copy signed list of the distrubtion of property while still living of Amos Henry to his wife and children.

Dates: 1914-11

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981 / Series 1. Legal Documents. / Choctaw

E.A Hitchcock to Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1907-03-04

Item — Box 2: [Barcode: A000023240322], Folder: 4

Identifier: 1975.006.2.Chickasaw.007

Scope and Contents

Carbon copy typed letter from E.A. Hitchcock (Secretary, Department of the Interor) to Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes in response to the Commissioner's recommendation that certain individuals be stricken from the partial rolls. Includes lists of Choctaws by blood and intermarriage and Chickasaw by blood and intermarriage. (See 1975.006.1.Chickasaw.005-006)

Dates: 1907-03-04

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981 / Series 2. Papers and Correspondence. / Chickasaw

Edmund J. Garner Papers, early 1900s.

Collection

Identifier: MC-1954-73

Scope and Contents

These documents include manuscripts on the Wheelock Church; Alfred Wright, missionary to the Choctaws; the Folsom families; Allen Wright; Pushmataha; the Removal; and Choctaw legends and customs. Mr. Gardner's father traveled the Trail of Tears with the Rev. Alfred Wright.

Dates: Early 1900s,

Found in: Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

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

License to Practice Law, 1892-12-05

Item — Box 2: [Barcode: A000020957230], Folder: 3

Identifier: 1975.006.1.Choctaw.027

Scope and Contents

License for Amos Henry to practice law in the courts of the Choctaw Nation.

Dates: 1892-12-05

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981 / Series 1. Legal Documents. / Choctaw

List of Choctaws and Chickasaws by Blood, Minors, and Intermarriage , Undated

Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 000023240308], Folder: 8

Identifier: 1975.006.1.Chickasaw.006

Scope and Contents

Department of the Interior to Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (Muskogee, IT). Typed lists of Choctaws and Chickasaws by blood, minor Choctaws and Chickasaws, and Choctaws and Chickasaws by intermarriage.

Dates: Undated