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Cherokee

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Culture Terms

Found in 3726 Collections and/or Records:

Cherokee Council Resolutions asserting Tribal Sovereignty, August 1, 1838

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 187.Unknown]
Identifier: 4026.512.1
Description

Resolutions adopted by the Council at Aquokee Camp asserting that the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation, its constitution, laws and usages shall continue in perpetuity, etc. (15 signers)

Dates: August 1, 1838

Cherokee-Creek Treaty, December 11, 1821

 Item — Folder 12: [Barcode: 187.12]
Identifier: 4026.27-.1
Description

Certified Copy of the Cherokee-Creek Treaty regarding boundary. Top left corner folded. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 12



Inscription(s)

Inscribed in ink, "Copy of the Creek + Cherokee Treaty"

Dates: December 11, 1821

Cherokee Family on Porch, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.9: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.9]
Identifier: 4327.3713
Description

Black and white photograph of a Cherokee family on a porch. Same family as from first envelope photos. Older woman seated at front wearing bandana, cotton dress, cardigan, and holding a fan. Woman at left behind her wearing dark woolen dress. A negative of this photograph exists in the Gilcrease Archive Collection. This photograph comes from the Grant Foreman Collection at the Gilcrease Museum. Folder 9

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Cherokee Family on Porch, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.9: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.9]
Identifier: 4327.3714
Description

Black and white photograph of a Cherokee family on a cabin porch. Four adults, one younger girl. Same older woman photographed with spinning wheel in 4327.3715-.3723. Older woman seated in foreground wearing bandana, cardigan, and cotton dress. A negative of this photograph exists in the Gilcrease Archive Collection. This photograph comes from the Grant Foreman Collection at the Gilcrease Museum. Folder 9

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Cherokee Indian Memorial, Calhoun, Georgia, September 1931

 Item — Folder Cherokee.23: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.23]
Identifier: 4327.3691
Description

Color postcard picture of Cherokee Indian Memorial Monument in Calhoun, GA. Shows momument with fence around base and trees in background. Folder 23

Dates: September 1931

Cherokee Insane Asylum and Wealaka, Presbyterian Mission, (Creek Nation), 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.7: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.7]
Identifier: 4326.3680a-b
Description

2 copies of this photograph exist in the Gilcrease Photograph Collection Folder 7

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Cherokee Outlet Fragment, 1891

 Item — Folder 1397: [Barcode: 187.1397]
Identifier: 4126.85.7
Description Cherokee Outlet Fragment. Regarding mail and money orders. There is also a document which is a portion of a newspaper one column is headed "Why This Question." It concerns the next Chief of the Cherokees and the other column headed "Vini to Mass Meeting" which has to do with several resolutions that were passed regarding rights of Cherokees and petitioning the principal chief to call an extra session of the National Council to get U.S. Government to negotiate a fair price for Cherokee lands....
Dates: 1891

Cherokee Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC.1954.39
Collection Overview The Cherokee Papers consist of a collection of materials such as personal letters and legal documents ranging from before, during, and after removal, including various correspondences from Colonel Return J. Meigs, Senator James Harlan, President Ulysses S. Grant, Colonel Stand Watie, and others. There are several documents pertaining to Cherokee land rights and negotiations, including the Old Settlers’ group with the Old Settlers' Council Proceedings (1838-1865) and a list of 119 Old...
Dates: 1799-1950

Cherokee Payment, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, July 1894

 Item — Folder Cherokee.10: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.10]
Identifier: 4326.3663
Description

Sepia-colored photograph of a Cherokee village. Wooden pavillion at left of photo. Other structures are tents. Trees and a building in background. Folder 10



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Mrs. M. J. Ross, Cherokee Payment, Fort Gibson, Ind. Ty. July 1894" on verso

Dates: July 1894

Cherokee Payment, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, July 1894

 Item — Folder Cherokee.11: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.11]
Identifier: 4326.2037
Description

Sepia-colored photograph of road at Fort Gibson, Indian territory. Several tents dispersed throughout road with buildings along right side and center middleground. Crowd and buildings behind tents in background. Wagon with figures holding umbrellas. Folder 11



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Mrs. M. J. Ross Cherokee Payment. Fort Gibson, Ind. Ty. July. 1894." on verso

Dates: July 1894