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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\ACTIVITIES FACET\Events\events\armed conflicts\

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Appointment of D. D. Hitchcock as Assistant Surgeon of the Second Indian Regiment of Home Guards at Bentonville, Arkansas, February 28, 1863

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 97.1]
Identifier: 5126.469
Description

Folder 1

Dates: February 28, 1863
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.94, Manuscript Collection: D.D. Hitchcock

Bound copy of the treaty between the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation, July 12, 1861

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 47.10]
Identifier: 4826.17
Description

Confederate States Commissioner Albert Pike concluded this eighty-seven page treaty between the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation at North Fork Town in Creek Nation West. Although the treaty was concluded in Creek Nation West, there is no evidence in the document to indicate the participation of Creek Nation. Included in the document are signatures for the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation. Folder 10

Dates: July 12, 1861
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.45, Manuscript Collection: Civil War Papers

Copy of Letter from Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles E. Mix to Secretary of the Interior J. P. Usher, August 15, 1864

 Item — Folder 1249: [Barcode: 187.1249]
Identifier: 4026.1459
Description

Copy of letter from Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of the Interior J. P. Usher enclosing Harlan and Coffin letters of July 30th and August 8, 1864, and asking Usher to request order from Secretary of War. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 1249

Dates: August 15, 1864
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Copy of Letter from Secretary of the Interior J. P. Usher to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, August 15, 1864

 Item — Folder 1250: [Barcode: 187.1250]
Identifier: 4026.1460-.1
Description

Copy of letter from Secretary of the Interior J. P. Usher to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton requesting order from the Secretary of War as petitioned in letter of Charles E. Mix. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1250



Inscription(s)

Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"

Dates: August 15, 1864
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Draft Copy of Letter from Cherokee Delegation to Secretary or War, May 25, 1864

 Item — Folder 1222: [Barcode: 187.1222]
Identifier: 4026.1436-.1
Description Draft copy of letter from Cherokee Delegation (John Ross, Lewis Downing, Lewis Ross, James McDaniel) to Secretary of War regretting breaking up of Indian Brigade and General Blunt's 'General Order Number 7.'(Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1222 Inscription(s) Inscribed in ink on verso, "Copy of a Communication to the Hon. Secretary of War, requesting the reorganization of the 2ed +...
Dates: May 25, 1864
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.92
Description A Cheyenne man wearing a war shirt decorated in beadwork strips and eagle feathers and an eagle feather bonnet with ermine skins, counts coup on his opponent as he fires his weapon. His horse has been readied for battle with paintings on his rear, flank, and chest, a scalp and eagle feather hanging from his chin, and his tail tied with a red wool cloth strip. The horse carries a painted and feathered warrior's society sash. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...
Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.103
Description A warrior leans to the side of his horse to strike a Pawnee with his saber. The Pawnee, identified through his distinctive hair style, wears a cotton shirt, a breech cloth, blue wool leggings, and garters. A mirror board and powder horn are tied to his belt and he carries a rifle. The Cheyenne carries a distinctive shield painted with images of the full and crescent moons and dragonflies. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger...
Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.137
Description Wearing his painted and beaded war shirt, a man counts coup on a fallen enemy with his quirt. The Crow adversary carries a knife and shield decorated with red cloth and eagle feathers and wears beaded wool leggings and a wool breechcloth. The horse is decorated for battle with a bandana and eagle feather tied at his chin and his tail tied in red wool and eagle feathers. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort...
Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Letter from General Matthew Arbuckle to Chief John Ross, September 23, 1838

 Item — Folder 431: [Barcode: 187.431]
Identifier: 4026.652a
Description

Letter from General Matthew Arbuckle, Fort Gibson, to "Principal Chief of the Cherokees." Warning of Sac effort to enlist Osages in war against U.S. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 431

Dates: September 23, 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Letter from Henry C. Ross, Nazareth Hall, to his father, Lewis Ross, indicating he had been sick with the mumps and asks about their house being burned down, September 30, 1864

 Item — Folder 24: [Barcode: 188.24]
Identifier: 4026.274
Description

Folder 24

Dates: September 30, 1864
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1975.186, Manuscript Collection: Mary Jane Ross

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