Guidebook to Manuscripts From "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These are various papers regarding money due the Indians from sale of lands under the terms of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. The "land warrants" are signed by the Indians with their marks. Some documents relating to George Durant as Commissioner of the Court of Claims and papers regarding this office, mostly in the 1870's, and an Act to improve the procedure of the Probate Court signed by Allen Wright are also included in the collection. There is one...

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Letter from Commissioner General I.H. Cook, Washington City, to Colonel Greenwood LeFlore, discussing arrangements to be made prior to Choctaw removal under the provisions of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

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Letter from Joseph G. Heald, Choctaw Agency, to Sam P. Shattuck dicussing move from East to Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory. Mentions dispersal of interest money to the Chickasaws. Comes with an accompaning case.

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Letter from Joseph G. Heald, Choctaw Agency, to Sam P. Shattuck. Mentions meathod of carrying children, livestock equivalencies east to west, garden growth, and marrige for young girls. Comes with an accompaning case.

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Land grant to Cun-oon-tam-be, signed by President James Polk, under 14th Artilce of Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

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Indenture of Henry Graves, son of Chief Netachachie, to Vincent Tims. Sale of his allocated lands in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit.

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Printed Charter of Incorporation of Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Includes bill for the recognition of the Company and its rights by the Choctaw Nation.

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Land grant of Bounty Land to Instan-ya Warrior for service under Captain Lewis Durants Company in the Choctaw Volunteers War 1812.

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Appointment of John T. Kinsbury as agent by Choctaw Nation of Boketuklo County to draw land warrants of 160 acres.

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Provisions for the development of uniform procedures in the administration of estates in Probate Court, signed by Allen Wright