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....

Scope and Contents Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "EFG Edison Pinnacle info March 3, 1989" in lower center on verso Curatorial Remarks Community Elder Tags: Pinnacle, March 3 1989, Dana Tiger Art Show, Smithsonian World, Blackboard, hand drawn map of Indian territory 1866, No Man's Land, Cherokee Outlet, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Greer County, Comanche, Kiamichi, apache, Chick a Saw, Creek, osage, cherokee, Choctaw, playbill, Oklahoma! The surrey with the fringe...

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Small unnumbered slip of paper with handwritten title, 'Indian Arrow March 8, 1890.' Folder 1397

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These papers concern the circuit court of which G.W. Benge was judge at the time. There are letters and "House Bills" regarding the sale of land in the Cherokee Outlet - especially some dealing with E.D. Chadwick and R.T. Wilson. One document, an amendment to House Bill No. 10,002, relates to the "Old Settlers or Western Cherokees Fund." There is one petition asking that the town of Catoosa be incorporated. Most of the items...

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Unsigned Resolution of National Council. Prompted by planned establishment of Nebraska Territory which is to include "Neutral Land", Cherokee "outlet", and part of inhabited nation and by questions of U. S. vs. Cherokee Jurisdiction. (See Nov 2. 1853 and Moulton Vol. II, page 389). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1024

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Printed communication to Congress from Cherokee Delegation (L. B. Bell and J. G. Schrimsher). Regarding leasing of Cherokee Outlet exclusion of Shawnees, Delawares, and Negroes from per capita payment. (March, 1884 per Wardell 1938-234). Sheets of paper with typed text in ink. Folder 1333B

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Printed report of Committee on territories on House Bill 13571 - Cherokee Outlet. Folder 1339.

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Resolution submitted by George Sanders and 12 other members of a committee of National Party. Warning against "resistance by force" and advising "Peace and Moderation." One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1337

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Sepia-colored photograph of Sooners passing through Cherokee Outlet waiting to cross swollen Salt Fork River Railroad Bridge seen at right.

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Undated, unsigned text of Act of National Council authorizing Principal Chief to lease Cherokee Outlet (lease signed July 5, 1883). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folded 1333A