oath
Subject
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Official copy of resolution signed by Acting Chief Lewis Downing and Secretary G. W. Ross, July 14, 1865
Item — Box 1, Folder: 39
Identifier: 5126.484
Description
Official copy of a resolution signed by Lewis Downing, Acting Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and Secretary G. W. Ross offering amnesty to Cherokee citizens who participated in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. The document includes the oath to be taken by the participants pledging allegiance to the Cherokee Nation and details the conditions for participants to be allowed amnesty. Folder 39
Dates:
July 14, 1865