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Cherokee Strip

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Subjects
Scope Note: Authorities\Attributes\Objects\Subjects\

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Act of Congress Permitting the Cherokee to Lease Land, August 7, 1882

 Item — Folder 1326: [Barcode: 187.1326]
Identifier: 3026.198
Description

Act of Congress permitting the Cherokee to lease not more than 3 salines on their lands lying west of 96 degrees West longitude for no more than 20 years. One sheet of paper with typed text in ink on recto and handwritten text in pencil on verso. Folder 1326



Inscription(s)

Inscription on verso in pencil

Dates: August 7, 1882
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Indian Territory, 1869

 Item — Drawer MC-9, Folder: Map 465
Identifier: 39.365
Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...
Dates: 1869
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1948.175, Manuscript Collection: Peter Pitchlynn

Letter from Marquis James to Charles Banks Wilson regarding the publication of the volume "The Cherokee Strip", September 4, 1945

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 113.1]
Identifier: 3827.3385
Description

Folder 1

Dates: September 4, 1945
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.111, Manuscript Collection: Marquis James

Printed Communication to Congress from Cherokee Delegation, 1797 - 1897

 Item — Folder 1333B: [Barcode: 187.1333B]
Identifier: 3026.268
Description

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

Dates: 1797 - 1897
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Printed copy of Petition and Abstract of Testimony in the Matter of Application of Peter Hollenbeck et al., August 27, 1883

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 48
Identifier: 2826.193
Description

Printed copy of Petition and Abstract of Testimony in the Matter of Application of Peter Hollenbeck et al., to Secure Prior Rights to Stock Ranges on the Cherokee Strip. Written to the Department of Interior discussing difficulties with new land leases. Folder 48

Dates: August 27, 1883
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.39, Cherokee Papers

Printed message from President Chester B. Arthur to Congress., January 20, 1883

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 187.Unknown]
Identifier: 3026.199
Description

Printed message from President Chester A. Arthur to Congress regarding 'Cherokee Lands in Indian Territory.' Accounting for lands taken by United States for settlement of friendly Indians under 1866 Treaty.

Dates: January 20, 1883
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Printed Statement of the Cherokee Funds requested by D. W. Bushyhead, Treasurer, July 1866 - July 1874

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 45
Identifier: 3726.360
Description

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

Dates: July 1866 - July 1874
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.39, Cherokee Papers

Undated, Unsigned Text of Act of National Council, 1797 - 1897

 Item — Folder 1333A: [Barcode: 187.1333A]
Identifier: 4026.8446
Description

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

Dates: 1797 - 1897
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

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