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Cherokee

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Culture Terms

Found in 3726 Collections and/or Records:

Gray's Atlas Map of Indian Territory, 1872

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.744
Transcript (DCI) Entered according to Act of Congree in the year 1872 by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.South eastern point of Pan HandleBoundary claimed by the State of TexasCeded to the United States by the Choctaws and Chikasaws by Treaty April 28th 1866Ceded to the United States by the Seminoles March 21st 1866Ceded to the United States by the Creeks June 14th 1867...
Dates: 1872
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Grocery License for Hart, Vann & Co. in Fort Gibson, C.N., October 17, 1891

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 17.23]
Identifier: 5126.497
Description

Grocery License for Hart, Vann & Co. in Fort Gibson, C.N. Folder 23

Dates: October 17, 1891
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.15, Manuscript Collection: George W. Benge

Guarding the Cherokee Millions, 1894

 Item — Folder Cherokee.23: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.23]
Identifier: 4326.3689
Description Black and white photograph of Native Americans guarding the Cherokee millions. Stairs leading up to porch attached to large building. Several men lined up along porch rail all wearing hats, some holding rifles. This photograph comes from the Grant Foreman Collection at the Gilcrease Museum. Folder 23 Inscription(s) Inscribed, "Guarding the Cherokee Millions: The Cherokee payment of $6,640,000 of the money paid in the U.S. for the Cherokee...
Dates: 1894
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Hand-drawn map of New Echota, Georgia, mid-19th century - mid-20th century

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 71
Identifier: 3926.264
Description

Hand-drawn map of New Echota, Georgia, noting a Federal monument, council house, tribal cemetary, and Elias Boudinot's house where the Cherokee Phoenix was printed. Folder 71, larger version in Map 455

Dates: mid-19th century - mid-20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.39, Cherokee Papers

Hand written biography of Captain Joseph Parks or Pa-Ka-tas-Ka-Kah (You will find him by the side of it), 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3522-.5
Description

Captain Joseph parks was a Shawnee born in 1797 and emigrated from Ohio to Kansas in 1833. Biography is six pages long. Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Hand written biography of Graham Rodgers or Way-Was-See-Se-Mo (A sweet Sound), 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3527
Description

Biography reads: "Born 1819, A Shawnee Councilor Educated at the Methodist Mission, or Shawnee Channel Labor School, was one of General Kamry's guides and hunters in 846, A well known advocate of agriculture Education and Religion among the Indians." Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Hand written biography of Isaac Journeycake or So-Ke-pah-kra-Xing, Deleware delegate, 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3526
Description

Biography reads: "One of the Delegation who visited Washington January 1859, Is a great Friend to the cause of Education, agriculture, and Religion". Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Hand written biography of John Conner or Tah-Tann-Ner-Shea, head chief of the Delewares, 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3525
Description

Biography reads: "A half and born 1807, went to Texas in 1842, took an action part in the war with Mexico, was a member of Capt. Smith's company of Rangers, …". Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Hand written biography of John Moses or Ent-Ho-Kop-pi, Son of the last war chief of the Deleware [sic], 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3523
Description

Biography reads: "Born 1823 Acts as guide to Col Fremont in his last tour to California in 1848-9, been in several engagements with the mountain and Prairie Indians, His father was second war chief". Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Hand written biography of Rev. Charles Ketchum or Wan-do'-hwas, third councilor of the Delewares, 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3524
Description

Biography reads: "Born 1812, has always been an advocate of education and Religion among his people and still labors to that end". Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

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