Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Black Beaver was born at Belleville, Illinois, in 1806 and died at Anadarko, Oklahoma, in 1880. He was an interpreter at the earliest conference with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Washita tribes held by Colonel Dodge on the Red River in 1834. One of the most noted latter-day Delawares, he was guide and scout for Captain John C. Fremont on a trip to the Pacific Coast. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he had settled on a fine ranch...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: There are two treaties among these items. One dated May 16, 1836, is printed; the other is an original document on parchment, dated July 4, 1805, between the United States of America and the chiefs and head men of the Wyandotte, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi Nations "...holden at Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake ... " The Indian signatures are in pictograph style. A copy of laws regulating...

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A map of North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville. Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio.

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Traveller's Guide- S. Augustus Mitchell

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Printed Statement of the Cherokee Funds requested by D. W. Bushyhead, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, and supplied by Edward P. Smith, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior. It includes information on the sale of neutral lands, the amount paid by the Delaware and Shawnee tribes for Cherokee land, proceeds from sales of the Cherokee strip in Kansas, and totals of the Cherokee Stock Account. Folder 45

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Unidentified paragraph stating terms on which Cherokee will sell land to Delaware (authorized 166 completed 1867 - Wardell 1938-217). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on one page. Folder 1316