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Removal Period

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\STYLES AND PERIODS FACET\Styles and Periods\styles and periods by region\The Americas\Native American\Native American Periods\

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

List of subsistence claims due Cherokees, 1830s

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 61.37]
Identifier: 4026.3416
Description

List of subsistence claims due to forty two named Cherokees showing the number in the family and all or a fraction due them. Folder 37

Dates: 1830s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Manuscript Collection: Edmond J. Gardner

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.73
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Edmond J. Gardner (1877-1935) was a student of Choctaw History and 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 Reverend Alfred Wright. Part Choctaw, Mr. Gardner was self-educated, and he was the only Choctaw who learned...
Dates: 1849-1936
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Edmond J. Gardner

Manuscript Collection: John Howard Payne (Grant Foreman Collection)

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.169
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Howard Payne (1791-1852) visited the Cherokee country in the 1830's, and two of these letters are introductions to John Ross, the Cherokee Chief. There is an exchange of seven letters between them, mostly personal. Some letters and photostats concern the arrest of Ross and Payne. One letter from John Ridge offers his regrets that Payne cannot visit his house and mentions sending him various Cherokee papers. Payne was...
Dates: 1832-1945
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Howard Payne (Grant Foreman Collection)

Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.185
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Ross (1790-1866) chief of the First Indian Republic, was principal chief of the Cherokees during the time of the Removal , establishment of the Cherokee Nation, and until his death. During the Civil War he split with the Cherokees who favored the Southern cause and ruled in exile after 1863 from Philadelphia. The collection contains correspondence, proclamation as chief of the Cherokee Tribe, legal papers, records,...
Dates: [no date]
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Note regarding 1832 move of Mrs. Wright (Harriet Bunce) and Mrs. Williams to Indian Territory, circa 1930s

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 76.2]
Identifier: 4027.4548
Description

Folder 2

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.73, Manuscript Collection: Edmond J. Gardner

Partial statement of account of Charles Rogers to Richard Fields, 1839

 Item — Folder 9: [Barcode: 61.9]
Identifier: 4026.1560.26
Description

Folder 9

Dates: 1839
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Permit from Cherokee Agency East allowing Benjamin Bracket family to migrate to Cherokee Country West, October 30, 1838

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 61.33]
Identifier: 4026.1581
Description

Permit signed by Nat Smith, Superintendent Cherokee Emigration, Cherokee Nation East allowing migration of Benjamin Bracker and family by contract to the Cherokee Country West where they are to report to the agent. Amount of two hundred and fifty dollars. Unexplained noted on permit. Folder 33

Dates: October 30, 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Photostat of letter from Going Snake et al. to General Scott, June 9, 1838

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: 4426.95
Description

Photostat of letter from Going Snake and others to Major General Scott, United States Army for the Cherokee Nation, concerning Cherokee request for a delay in their emigration to the Arkansas River for humanitarian reasons. Folder 23

Dates: June 9, 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.39, Cherokee Papers

Power of Attorney from Jesse Lovett to Chief John Ross, November 15, 1839

 Item — Folder 678: [Barcode: 187.678]
Identifier: 4026.867-.1
Description

Power of Attorney from Jesse Lovett to Chief John Ross. To obtain warrant, title or remuneration for a reservation to Caty Stephens under Treaty of 1817 and 1819. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on one page. Folder 678

Dates: November 15, 1839
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Resolution, August 1, 1838

 Item — Folder 385: [Barcode: 187.385]
Identifier: 4026.612.1
Description

Resolution adopted by Council at Aquokee Camp asserting that the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation, its constitution, laws and usages shall continue in perpetuity, etc. There are fifteen signers. Folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 385

Dates: August 1, 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

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