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Cherokee

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Culture Terms

Found in 3726 Collections and/or Records:

Testimony of Thomas Hindman Regarding Ridge-Boudinot Murders, 1797 - 1897

 Item — Folder 755: [Barcode: 187.755]
Identifier: 4026.925-.20
Description

Testimony of Thomas Hindman regarding Ridge-Boudinot murders and conflict between factions. Folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink. Folder 755

Dates: 1797 - 1897

Text of Address by Chief John Ross to National Council , September 12, 1839

 Item — Folder 633: [Barcode: 187.633]
Identifier: 4026.822-.1
Description

Text of Address by Chief John Ross to newly-elected National Council under Constitution adopted under July 12 Act of Union. This is first document in file written at Tahlequah Cherokee Nation. (Moulton) Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 633

Dates: September 12, 1839

Text of address (unsigned) by John Mason, Jr. to the Cherokee , August 7, 1837

 Item — Folder 235: [Barcode: 187.235]
Identifier: 4026.465-.3
Description

Text of address (unsigned) by John Mason, Jr. to the Cherokee in which he speaks for the President who sees destruction of the tribe in continued white contact, but salvation in their own lands in the west and promises a delegation in the House of Representatives. Sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink. Folder 235

Dates: August 7, 1837

Thank-you note from Stone to Glen Ames, Gilcrease Director, April 19, 1961

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 201.61]
Identifier: 3827.3360

“The Good Man's Ambition”, May 13, 1859

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 228.17]
Identifier: 3826.2885

The home of John Ross near Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.27: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.27]
Identifier: 4326.3268a-b
Description

2 copies of this photograph exist in the Gilcrease Photograph Collection Folder 27



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "The home of John Ross near Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga, Tennessee, from The Great South, by Edward King." under image on recto

Dates: 1850 - 1900

The Pay Room, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.23: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.23]
Identifier: 4326.3690
Description Black and white pictograph of the pay room at Fort Gibson. Men standing in room with row on windows on either side of room. Wearing slack, white shirt, and vest, some in hat. In center behind fence are men seated at at table with stacks of cash. Folder 23 Inscription(s) Inscribed, "The Pay Room in the old barracks at Fort Gibson. This picture was taken some day, after the payment began, but there are hundreds of thousands left in the bundles...
Dates: 1850 - 1900

The Removal of the Cherokee, circa 1927

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 65
Identifier: 4027.5291
Description

Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65

Dates: circa 1927

The Ridge, monument, Polson Cemetery, Delaware County, OK, 1935

 Item — Folder Cherokee.9: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.9]
Identifier: 4327.3707
Description

Black and white photograph of "The Ridge" monument in Polson Cemetary, OK. Momument reads "The Ridge; Major Morgan's Cherokee Regt.; War of 1812; June 23, 1839". Folder 9



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Polson Cemetary near Southwest City, Mo., erected 1935" on verso

Dates: 1935