Power of Attorney from Big Mush to Chief John Ross, March 27, 1845
Item — Folder: 965
Identifier: 4026.1125-.1
Description
Power of Attorney from Big Mush to Ross. To pursue claim with respect to reservation of Choctaw. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 965
Dates
- March 27, 1845
Creator
- Unidentified (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
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Extent
From the Collection: 11 Linear Feet
Medium
ink on paper
Signed
Signed, "X (Big Mush's mark)"
Dimensions
Overall: 12 1/2 × 16 in. (31.8 × 40.6 cm) Folded: 12 1/2 × 8 in. (31.8 × 20.3 cm)
- Big Mush
- Cherokee
- Cherokee Nation -- tsalagi ayeli -- tsalagiyi
- Choctaw
- Choctaw (culture or style)
- Claim
- Eastern Cherokee
- John Ross -- Chief John Ross -- Cooweescoowee -- Kuwees Koowee -- guwisguwi
- John Ross Papers
- Legal Document
- Manuscripts
- Mississippi River
- Money
- Native American
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- Park Hill -- Chief John Ross' community -- guwisguwi sgadugi
- Principal Chief
- S. F. Stapler -- Sarah F. Stapler -- Sarah Fisher Stapler
- Tahlequah -- Daliqua
- Tennessee
- Tennessee River
- Treaty of Cherokee Agency (1817)
- Treaty of Washington
- Treaty of Washington (1819)
- Western Cherokee
- archives -- archive
- chieftains -- chieftain -- chiefs (tribal leader)
- funds
- heirs -- heir -- inheritors
- post-Removal
- powers of attorney -- power of attorney -- letters of attorney
- property rights -- right of private property
- treaties -- treaty
Repository Details
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