Municipality. Minutes of the Chelsea, Indian Territory, city council (1893-1896); city assessments for 1899; summons for witnesses (1896-1897); and a warrant (1899) for disturbing the peace. Chelsea was originally in the Cherokee Nation.
Indian tribe. Official correspondence, letter press books, reports, chiefs' messages, speeches of delegates, proceedings, laws, court decisions, acts, leases, election returns, registers of removal claims, and clippings related to the affairs of...
Judge. General and family correspondence (1865-1902); notebooks and journals (1862-1887); speeches (1866-1888); and legal documents (1859-1894) dealing with the Cherokee National Party, the Cherokee Nation Blind Asylum, pensions, and Cherokee...
Collector. Programs (1937-1958) of the yearly reunions of Cherokee seminary graduates; a report (1955) regarding the old Murrell home in Tahlequah, Indian Territory; a report (1953) regarding New Echota, Cherokee Nation; a publication (1954) of the...
Indian chief. Correspondence (1879-1897); annual messages (1879-1882); speeches (1879-1887); an autobiography (1880); proclamations (1879-1885); and other papers (1879-1922) relating to political matters in which Bushyhead was involved as principal...
Professor. Photocopies of field notes (1933) compiled by Fred Eggan during his studies of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian kinship, bands, societies, marriage, genealogy, ceremonies, child care, and social customs; U.S. census coding sheets (1880,...
Collector. Photocopies of Choctaw Indian documents including an occupation permit (1889); a sales brochure (n.d.) from the Sacred Heart Abbey in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma; a letter (1845) from George Harkins describing the condition among the Choctaws...
Attorney. Family and business correspondence (1900-1951); legal documents (1900-1939); and printed material (1900-1951) belonging to Rennie, a Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, attorney. Much of the material relates to real estate transactions including land...
Indian chief. Typescripts of correspondence (1875-1879) relating to Choctaw participation in the proposed Indian Union growing out of the Okmulgee Council; published speeches (1877-1878); Choctaw Tribal Council proceedings (1873-1878); accounts of...
Journalist. Folsom family correspondence (1902-1908); a notebook (1897-1899) indicating the subjects studied by Folsom while a student at Atoka Baptist Seminary and Folsom's personal account books (1905-1910). The collection also includes annual...
Teacher. Certificates and teaching contracts (1894-1923); a teaching assignment (1907) from the U.S. Indian Service at McAlester, Indian Territory; and the Choctaw spelling book Chata Holisso (n.d.), printed by the Richmond Presbyterian Committee...
Indian chief. Typescripts of correspondence (1900-1901) written during Dukes's tenure as principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and relating to leases, stock raising, and Choctaw Indian schools, together with speeches (1900-1902); biographical...
Banker and rancher. Correspondence (1882-1929); legal and financial records (1896-1928); diaries (1928-1929); and related biographical items concerning the banking, ranching, oil interests, and life of Edward Johnson, a Chickasaw Indian businessman...
Indian school and orphanage. Newspaper clippings (1956); brochures (1950); pamphlets (1955); and a published history (1940) of the Goodland Indian School, a Presbyterian orphanage founded for Choctaw Indians, but later expanded to serve orphans...
Indian chief. Official and personal correspondence, subject files, business records of the Cherokee Nation and Wilma Mankiller for the period 1977-1995, including personal correspondence (1993-1995); correspondence (1985-1995) with members of the...
Mercantile firm. Ledgers (1896-1922) in which the daily commerce of this Spiro, Oklahoma, general store and cotton-ginning operation were recorded. Among these are day books (1898-1918); cash books and notary records (1904-1906); funeral records...
Businessman. Correspondence (1888-1908); store ledgers (1874-1903); daybooks (1870-1904); inventory books (n.d.); cash books (1889-1903); and supporting records from the J. J. McAlester Mercantile Company in McAlester, Indian Territory. McAlester...
Indian tribe. Court decisions, treasury warrants, and related legal documents (1868-1900); correspondence (1873-1898); and typescripts of newspaper articles (1849-1943); all relating to land, institutions, and the affairs of the Creek Nation,...
Indian chief. Typescripts of a speech to the Comanche and Wichita nations (1835), and the Creek Nation (1898); of McIntosh's message to the Creek Nation (1898); of newspaper articles (1871-1907) regarding McIntosh; and a biographical sketch (1928)...
Indian chief. Typescripts of letters (1891-1898); speeches (1884-1898); editorials (1896-1906); and biographical accounts (1903-1908), all relating to Isparhecher while a principal chief of the Creek Nation on subjects such as tribal factionalism,...
