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McCurtain, Green (1848-1910)
McCurtain, Green (1848–1910)
Papers 1890–1916
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Indian chief. Correspondence (1890–1916) to and from McCurtain regarding Choctaw Nation railroads, administrative matters, politics, Choctaw Indian claims against the United States, and the issue of separate statehood for Indian Territory, including letters from the chiefs of the other major Indian tribes in the territory; maps (1876–1908) of railroad rights-of-way and towns in the Choctaw Nation; publications (1896–1913) by political parties and citizens groups in the Choctaw Nation regarding political and judicial events and issues; publications (1892–1916) of the U.S. government regarding mineral rights of the Choctaw Nation and Indian Territory; and McCurtain’s personal expense accounts (1902–1910).
Box 1
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1General correspondence and records: July 19, 1866. Deed [torn fragment] for parcel of land in Barry County, Missouri purchased by George W. Scott of Lamar County, Texas, from James A. [Mounda?], Filed and recorded in Book “G”, pages 420 & 421
2General correspondence and records: cira1888. IOU from Ridgely and Wallace Bond to Sam Turk for $40.00
3General correspondence and records: 1891. Miscellaneous to Green McCurtain relating to Choctaw financial concerns
4General correspondence and records: 1892. Miscellaneous Choctaw cattle, insurance and coal concerns
5General correspondence and records: 1893. Choctaw tribal financial records, Merchants Bank, Fort Smith, Arkansas (August to October), transcripts for court proceedings relating to a financial dispute, George S. Thebe versus the Choctaw Tribe or Nation of Indians (Wilson N. Jones, Principal Chief and Green McCurtain, Treasurer named defendants)
6General correspondence and records: 1895. Choctaw tribal financial records, Merchants Bank, Fort Smith, Arkansas (July to September), corn weight receipts to Green McCurtain (December 1894 to January 1895), miscellaneous correspondence related to various legal cases
7General correspondence and records: 1896. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to Green McCurtain running for a tribal political office
8General correspondence and records: 1897. Legal case log 71 - 89 with notes [written in Choctaw?], miscellaneous financial records
9General correspondence and records: October 24, 1898. Choctaw General Council meeting minutes relating to tribal Citizenship Commission chaired by Green McCurtain
10General correspondence and records: 1899. Letters to George W. Scott
Box 2
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1General correspondence and records: July 12, 1901. Letter to Green McCurtain from D. C. McCurtain [Green’s son] regarding a letter published in a local
2General correspondence and records: 1902 (January – September). Miscellaneous letters regarding tribal affairs
3General correspondence and records: 1902 (October). Miscellaneous letters regarding the validity of Green McCurtain’s chieftainship which was challenged by men named Hunter and Dukes, removal of U.S. Marshall Hackett, tribal land issues, and Dawes Roll’s amendments and citizenship applications
4General correspondence and records: 1902 (November). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, the Hunter – Dukes party, other Choctaw tribal concerns
5General correspondence and records: 1902 (December 1-22). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, the Hunter – Dukes party, other Choctaw tribal concerns, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues
6General correspondence and records: 1902 (December 23 -31). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, requests for appointment as allotment agent / commissioner, renter permits, other Choctaw tribal concerns, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues
Box 3
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1General correspondence and records: 1903 (Months undetermined). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, petition by the heirs of Peter P. Pitchlynn for compensation for land
2General correspondence and records: 1903 (January 1 – 13). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues, other Choctaw tribal concerns, tribal citizenship
3General correspondence and records: 1903 (January 14 – 31). Hay royalties, Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, requests for appointment as allotment agent / commissioner, tribal citizenship, hire of tribal lighthorsemen [security agents], rents on tribal land, other Choctaw tribal concerns
4General correspondence and records: 1903 (February). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues, requests for appointment as allotment agent / commissioner, timber leases on tribal allotments, segregated coal land
5General correspondence and records: 1903 (March 1 – 12). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, requests for appointment as allotment agent / commissioner, Marshall N. Tucker pardon petition, other Choctaw tribal concerns
6General correspondence and records: 1903 (March 13 – 31). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, hire of tribal lighthorsemen [security agents], segregated coal land, requests for appointment as interpreters for the Dawes Commission, timber leases on tribal allotments, funding for tribal orphanages, Mississippi Choctaw
Box 4
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1General correspondence and records: 1903 (April 1 – 15). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, funding for tribal orphanages, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Mississippi Choctaw, requests for appointment as allotment agent / commissioner, segregated coal land
2General correspondence and records: 1903 (April 16 – 30). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Mississippi Choctaw, timber leases on tribal allotments
3General correspondence and records: 1903 (May). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, timber leases on tribal allotments, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Mississippi Choctaw, segregated coal land
4General correspondence and records: 1903 (June 1 – 19). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, tribal lighthorsemen [security agents], timber leases on tribal allotments, segregated coal land, Choctaw Townsite Commission issues, tribal political climate, freedmen allotments, the Hunter – Dukes party, letter from D.C. McCurtain to his father, Green, reporting on a trip to Washington D.C. on behalf of the Choctaw tribe relating to coal and asphalt deposits on allotted lands.
5General correspondence and records: 1903 (June 20 – 30). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, freedmen rights, tribal lighthorsemen [security agents] reports, timber leases on tribal allotments, Choctaw probate
6General correspondence and records: 1903 (July 1 – 17). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, hay and cattle royalties, timber leases on tribal allotments, hire of tribal lighthorsemen [security agents], other tribal matters
Box 5
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1General correspondence and records: 1903 (July 18 – 31). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, timber leases on tribal allotments, segregated coal land, Mississippi Choctaw, other tribal matters
2General correspondence and records: 1903 (August 1 – 15). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, segregated coal land, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, Mississippi Choctaw, hay and cattle royalties, other tribal matters
3General correspondence and records: 1903 (August 16 – 31). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, segregated coal land, hay and cattle royalties, freedmen allotments, freedmen rights, Mississippi Choctaw, timber leases on tribal allotments
4General correspondence and records: 1903 (September). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, hay and cattle royalties, timber leases on tribal allotments, Choctaw probate, hire of tribal lighthorsemen [security agents], other tribal matters
5General correspondence and records: 1903 (October). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, other tribal matters
6General correspondence and records: 1903 (November). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, hay and cattle royalties, Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe, other tribal matters
7General correspondence and records: 1903 (December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations, Choctaw tribal contingency fund, Mississippi Choctaw, letter from D.C. McCurtain to his father, Green, regarding the establishment of Choctaw probate and guardianship courts
Box 6
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1General correspondence and records: 1904 (January). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations, Mississippi Choctaw, coal leases, segregated coal land, cattle royalties, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, letter from D.C. McCurtain to his father, Green, regarding tribal citizenship and distribution of land
General correspondence and records: 1903 (November). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, non-citizen cattle grazing on allotted land, hay and cattle royalties, Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe, other tribal matters
2General correspondence and records: 1904 (February). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations, letter from D.C. McCurtain to his father, Green, regarding coal leases and Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations
3General correspondence and records: 1904 (March). ). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, appointments for U.S. deputy marshal, segregated coal land, other tribal issues
4General correspondence and records: 1904 (April). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw Townsite Commission, cattle royalties, timber leases on tribal allotments, road closures
5General correspondence and records: 1904 (May). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, segregation of pine land, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues
6General correspondence and records: 1904 (June). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, freedmen rights
7General correspondence and records: 1904 (July). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues
8General correspondence and records: 1904 (August). ). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Mississippi Choctaw
9General correspondence and records: 1904 (September). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, hay royalties
10General correspondence and records: 1904 (October). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Choctaw Townsite Commission, cattle royalties
11General correspondence and records: 1904 (November). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Choctaw Townsite Commission, cattle royalties, Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations
12General correspondence and records: 1904 (December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Choctaw Townsite Commission, Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe
Box 7
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1General correspondence and records: 1905 (January – July). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, Mississippi Choctaw, other tribal issues
2General correspondence and records: 1905 (August – December). ). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, segregated coal lands, Mississippi Choctaw
3General correspondence and records: 1906 (January – November 13). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, timber leases on tribal allotments, Choctaw Nation treasurer’s report dated February 28, 1906, Choctaw / Chickasaw intertribal relations, allotment and homestead certificates for Levi McCoy, a native born Chickasaw #284, schools for Indian children, Choctaw Townsite Commission, public highway easements
4General correspondence and records: 1906 (November 14 – December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, segregated coal lands, orphans’ home
Box 8
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1General correspondence and records: 1907 (January – May). ). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, freedmen rights, political support for various candidates, Choctaw Nation treasurer’s report dated February 13, 1907, timber sales on Choctaw lands, oil and gas leases, other tribal issues
2General correspondence and records: 1907 (June – December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, segregated coal lands, other tribal issues
3General correspondence and records: 1908 (January – March). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, segregated coal lands, Choctaw Townsite Commission, school locations, suppression of liquor traffic in Indian country, other tribal issues
4General correspondence and records: 1908 (April – June). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, segregated coal lands, Choctaw tribal buildings
5General correspondence and records: 1908 (July – September). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, segregated coal lands, taxation of tribal lands, appointment of new treasurer for Choctaw nation, Mississippi Choctaw,
6General correspondence and records: 1908 (October – December). ). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, segregated coal lands
Box 9
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1General correspondence and records: 1909 (January – June). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, J.E. Fleming land case against the Choctaw and Chickasaw land divisions, George S. Thebo estate claim against the Choctaw nation, segregated coal lands, freedman allotments, taxation of tribal lands, school locations
2General correspondence and records: 1909 (July – December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, tribal citizenship, George S. Thebo estate claim against the Choctaw nation, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, taxation of tribal lands
3General correspondence and records: 1910 (January – July). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, segregated coal lands, Office of Commissioner of the Five Civilized Tribes, taxation of tribal lands, Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe
4General correspondence and records: 1910 (August – December). Miscellaneous letters regarding land allotments, freedman allotments
5General correspondence and records: 1911. Peoples’ Power League statement
6General correspondence and records: 1912. The Georgia Home Insurance Company certificate to George W. Scott for a warehouse in Kinta, Oklahoma
7General correspondence and records: 1913. National Fire Insurance Company certificate to Green McCurtain for tornado insurance for a building in Kinta, Oklahoma, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues for Levina Johnson
8General correspondence and records: 1914. Letter from Democratic Central Committee of Haskell County, Oklahoma with list of the Campaign Committee and precinct committeemen
General correspondence and records: 1915. Oil and gas lease agreements between George W. Scott and his wife Alice, and Grant C. Stebbins of Tulsa, Oklahoma
10General correspondence and records: 1916. Correspondence between George W. Scott and his grandmother regarding mortgage on her land, warranty deed for Lavina Johnson and Emeline Wright for land
Box 10
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1General correspondence and records: 1920. Letter from Jane McCurtain to George W. Scott, February 2, 1920, Tuscahoma, Oklahoma. Family news, succession list of elected chiefs of the Choctaw tribe, ending with Green McCurtain
2General correspondence and records: 1926. Call for Choctaw Election to be held August 11, 1926, due to vacancy in the office of principal chief, national secretary, and members of the Choctaw tribal council
3General correspondence and records: 1928. Bill of Sale, dated July 25, 1928 for the sale of the Haskell County Abstract Company of Stigler, Haskell County, Oklahoma, to George W. Scott from Fred Cotton
4General correspondence and records: 1934. Memorial Record for the funeral of Katie McCurtain, May 1934. Letter from Jack Nichols to Alice [McCurtain] Scott thanking her for her support for his congressional campaign, dated July 17, 1934
5General correspondence and records: 1935. Miscellaneous correspondence of the Mahaya [also Mahaiya, Ma Hai Ya] Indian Club
6General correspondence and records: 1936. Miscellaneous correspondence, Scott family
7General correspondence and records: 1938. Letter to Catherine [Scott] from her mother
8General correspondence and records: 1939. Miscellaneous correspondence, to Alice McCurtain Scott
9General correspondence and records: 1940. Miscellaneous correspondence, Scott family
10General correspondence and records: 1941. Warranty deed from W.A. Ragle and Rosa, his wife to C. B. Scott, a piece of land in Haskell County, Oklahoma, dated September 25, 1941. Correspondence from T.W. Hunter relating to a memorial for Green McCurtain in Kinta.
11General correspondence and records: 1941 (circa). McCurtain family history, prayer
12General correspondence and records: 1942. Miscellaneous correspondence, from Alice McCurtain Scott
13General correspondence and records: 1943. Miscellaneous correspondence, some from Elmer Thomas, relating to congressional bills dealing with Choctaw segregated coal lands
14General correspondence and records: 1944. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to the appointment of a Choctaw National Attorney, and from Elmer Thomas in regards to the sale of coal lands
15General correspondence and records: 1946. Miscellaneous correspondence
16General correspondence and records: 1947. Letter from J.H. Blevin, State President, Choctaw / Chickasaw Confederation, about the proposed sale of coal and asphalt deposits
17General correspondence and records: 1948. Campaign leaflet of Fulsom Scott for State Representative, letter about campaign from unknown correspondent
18General correspondence and records: 1949. Miscellaneous Scott family correspondence, some family history
19General correspondence and records: 1953. Letters from McCurtain Scott supporting Edwin O. Clark in his bid for Commissioner of Indian Affairs
20General correspondence and records: Undated – (circa 1895 – 1949). Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 11
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1Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1902. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, timber, coal, water, etc., through Choctaw lands
2Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1903 (January – March). Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, timber, coal, water, etc., through Choctaw lands, proposed intersection of various railway lines, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation, locations of depots
3Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1903 (March – December). Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, timber, coal, water, etc., through Choctaw lands, proposed intersection of various railway lines, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation, locations of depots, illegal cutting and shipping of lumber on the railroads from railroad right-of-ways, liability for railroad bridge repair and maintenance
4Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1903 (other). Plat description and assessment of damages due to the Choctaw Nation from the Frisco Railroad Company for construction of a connecting line
5Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation, railway right-of-ways through segregated coal lands
6Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation
7Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1906. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation
8Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1907. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation
9Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1908. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation, Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railroad timetable (Northern-Eastern Edition), dated November 8, 1908, St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad timetable, dated October, 1908
10Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1909. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation, reservoir locations, St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad timetable, dated October-November, 1909
11Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1910. Miscellaneous correspondence with various railroad companies regarding right-of-ways, allotments affected by railroad right-of-way condemnation
12Railroads – Choctaw Nation: 1911. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway timetable, dated November 26, 1911
Box 12
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1Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: Cross-reference note for oversize items (oversize location #08363)
2Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1902. Miscellaneous correspondence related to the Five Civilized Tribes Convention at Eufaula, Oklahoma [May 20, 1903]
3Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1903 (January – May). Miscellaneous correspondence related to creating a state from Indian Territory separate from Oklahoma, temperance and liquor exclusion issues in Indian Territory, proposed Constitutional Convention for the Five Civilized Tribes [May 20, 1903]
4Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1903 (June – December). Miscellaneous correspondence related to creating a state from Indian Territory separate from Oklahoma, temperance and liquor exclusion issues in Indian Territory, Constitutional Convention for the Five Civilized Tribes [May 20, 1903], resolutions adopted by the Constitutional Convention, special election [December 19, 1903] to determine whether the Choctaw Nation favors statehood separate from Oklahoma
5Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1903 (Statehood Convention Election Results, December 1903). Please note that part of these election materials are in Oversize Location #08363. Poll sheets.
6Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence related to the responses of various tribes to a proposed Constitutional Convention, appropriations for election, state from Indian Territory separate from Oklahoma
7Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence related to creating a state from Indian Territory separate from Oklahoma, Constitutional Convention for the Five Civilized Tribes [August 21, 1905], Chickasaw Nation resolution against single statehood within Oklahoma
8Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1906. Poll Book, Democratic Primary Election, October 6, 1906, Featherston, I.T., for the purpose of nominating a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 91st Delegate District
9Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1907. Transaction for turkeys between C.C. Shoemaker of Freeport, Illinois, and Green McCurtain
10Separate Statehood Movement, Indian Territory: 1908. Miscellaneous correspondence related to creating a state from Indian Territory separate from Oklahoma
Box 13
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1Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1894 – 1902.
2Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1903.
3Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1904.
4Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1905.
5Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1906.
6Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1907.
7Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1908.
8Correspondence in the Choctaw Language: 1909 – 1911.
Box 14
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1Miscellaneous Correspondence from / to Mansfield, McMurray &Cornish Law Firm: 1902, 1903 (January – March). Livestock royalties [tax] to be paid by non-Choctaws who run stock on tribal lands, land condemnation and compensation for public works projects, tribal citizenship, Freedmen suit against the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes for land allotments, merchandise [sales] taxes to be paid by businesses built on tribal lands, appointments of interpreters for the tribes
2Miscellaneous Correspondence from / to Mansfield, McMurray &Cornish Law Firm: 1903 (April – December). Tribal citizenship, merchandise [sales] taxes to be paid by businesses built on tribal lands, taxes on timber cut on tribal lands, Mississippi Choctaw, appointment of U.S. Marshal, livestock royalties [tax] to be paid by non-Choctaws who run stock on tribal lands, hay royalties
3Miscellaneous Correspondence from / to Mansfield, McMurray &Cornish Law Firm: 1904. Tribal citizenship, Mississippi Choctaw, tribal allotments, freedmen citizenship, requests for appointment to tribal police force, probate and guardianship issues
4Miscellaneous Correspondence from / to Mansfield, McMurray &Cornish Law Firm: 1905, 1908. Pitchlynn heirs suit against the Choctaw tribe, tribal citizenship, tribal allotments, freedmen citizenship
Box 15
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1Mines and Mining Industry: 1903 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to segregated coal and asphalt lands, quarterly reports of coal and asphalt mined and royalties due from each operator in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
2Mines and Mining Industry: 1905 – 1910. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to segregated coal and asphalt lands, quarterly reports of coal and asphalt mined and royalties due from each operator in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
3Tuskahoma Party, 1901 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to elections, campaign finances, meeting minutes, Dukes – Hunter party, Hunter – Durant party, convention representation
4Politics and political parties, 1904 – 1910. Miscellaneous correspondence, election returns, Oration of T.W. Hunter, delivered to the voters of Sans Bois County, at Bethel, July 15, 1904
Box 16
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1Choctaw Snake Band, 1903. Dawes Commission protests, lists of members [Choctaw language]
2Board of Health, Choctaw Nation, 1902 – 1903. Funding issues, licensing of medical practitioners, removing illegal practitioners
3Schools, 1902 – 1906. Administrative appointments, orphan schools, Choctaw Nation schools, funding
4Permits [various], 1902. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to lists of permit violators, issue of permits for hunting and fishing, business permits, merchants licenses, petitions for trader’s permits, permit fees
5Permits [various], 1903 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to issue of permits for hunting and fishing, business permits, merchants licenses, petitions for trader’s permits, permit fees
Box 17
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1Counties – General, 1902 – 1906. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to election results, locations of county courthouses in Indian Territory, appointment of county officials, county financial concerns, appointment of auditor
2Moshulatubbee District: Tobucksey County, 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to election results, locations of county courthouses in Indian Territory, appointment of county officials, county financial concerns, illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, segregated coal and asphalt land distribution, hay and livestock royalties, requests for removal of Johnson Frazier as sheriff
3Moshulatubbee District: Gaines County, October 1892. County financial statements for services and goods
4Moshulatubbee District: San Bois County, 1898 – 1907. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to election results, sale of stray livestock, last will and testament of William Hendrixson (not dated), county financial concerns, nonpayment of permits, hay and livestock royalties, illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens
5Moshulatubbee District: Skullyville County, 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to county financial concerns, investigation against Judge E.A. Moore (who resigned) and appointment of John Taylor in his place, appointment of county officials, cutting timber by non-citizens, sale of the courthouse, cattle and hay royalties, court case against judge John Taylor for advising a non-citizen to not pay a goods royalty
6Moshulatubbee District: Sugar Loaf County, 1903 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to county financial concerns, cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, election results, issue of permits, county quarterly reports
7Apukshunnubbee District: Wade County, 1902 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to issue and payment of permits, illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, complaints against county judge Raymond Bryant, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, nonpayment of merchants taxes, complaints and suspension of Sheriff Dan Bryant, Pitchlynn family, appointment of county officials, High Hill election judge misconduct
8Apukshunnubbee District: Nashoba (“Wolf”) County, 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to appointment of county officials, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, county quarterly reports, issue and payment of permits, cutting timber by non-citizens, sale of stray livestock
9Apukshunnubbee District: Boktuklo County, 1902 – 1903. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to timber permits [most documents in this folder are in the Choctaw language with no translation]
10Apukshunnubbee District: Eagle County, 1902 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to petition for removal of county sheriff, Hunter – Dukes party, election results, appointment of county officials
11Apukshunnubbee District: Red River County, 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to election results, appointment of county officials, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, cutting timber by non-citizens, [most documents in this folder are in the Choctaw language with no translation]
12Apukshunnubbee District: Towson County, 1903. Letter regarding issue and payment of permits
13Apukshunnubbee District: Cedar County, 1903 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, cutting timber by non-citizens
Box 18
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1Pushmataha District: Atoka County, 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, cutting timber by non-citizens, appointment of county officials, county financial concerns, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, issue and payment of permits, timber allotments, hay royalties, complaints against the sheriff
2Pushmataha District: Jack’s Fork County, 1902 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, timber by non-citizens, issue and payment of permits, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues
3Pushmataha District: Kiamichi County, 1903 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to hay royalties, illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, election results, appointment of county officials
4Pushmataha District: Jackson County, 1902 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to issue and payment of permits, appointment of county officials, Choctaw probate and guardianship issues, complaints against sheriff for misconduct,
5Pushmataha District: Blue County, 1902 – 1904. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to hay royalties, illegal cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, issue and payment of permits, appointment of county officials, suspension and removal of county officials
6Moshulatubbee (First) District: 1896 – 1906. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to financial concerns, district quarterly reports, mining royalties, issue and payment of permits, complaints against county officials
7Apukshunnubbee (Second) District: 1896 – 1906. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to cattle grazing by non-Choctaw citizens, selection of circuit court jurors
8Pushmataha (Third) District: 1902 – 1905. Miscellaneous correspondence relating to issue and payment of permits, complaints against county officials, validity of scrip, financial concerns, removal of Judge Everidge as district judge
Box 19
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1Personal records and correspondence: 1895. Contract between Albert B. Bellis of Muscogee and Green McCurtain for Mr. Bellis to build a windmill, install several exterior tanks and piping, several hydrants, a lawn sprinkler system, a sanitary water closet (toilet) in the bathroom in the house, and put a 40-gallon water boiler in the kitchen on Green McCurtain’s farm, dated August 3, 1895.
2Personal records and correspondence: 1902. Letter [copy] from Green McCurtain to Jerry Fulsom, refusing to cosign a promissory note for $500.00, dated November 20, 1902.
3Personal records and correspondence: 1903. Green McCurtain’s [personal?] accounts and correspondence with various merchants, including George W. Scott, Dyke Bros. Wholesale Lumber of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and others
4Personal records and correspondence: 1904. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain for various goods and services
5Personal records and correspondence: 1905. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain and George W. Scott for various goods and services
6Personal records and correspondence: 1906. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain with various merchants, including George W. Scott, for various goods and services, passbook and statements for Green McCurtain’s bank account at Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Indian Territory
7Personal records and correspondence: 1907. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain with various merchants, including George W. Scott, for various goods and services, statements for Green McCurtain’s bank account at Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Indian Territory
8Personal records and correspondence: 1908. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain with various merchants, including San Bois Lumber Company [company name crossed out and “George W. Scott” written in], for various goods and services, statements for Green McCurtain’s bank account at Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Indian Territory
9Personal records and correspondence: 1909. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain with various merchants for various goods and services, statements for Green McCurtain’s bank account at Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Indian Territory, Haskell County tax receipts paid by Green McCurtain to John E. McBrayer
10Personal records and correspondence: 1910. Miscellaneous bank and merchants accounts for Green McCurtain with various merchants for various goods and services, statements for Green McCurtain’s bank account at Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Indian Territory, correspondence relating to land and land taxes, insurance policy from Teutonia Insurance Company for a building in Kinta owned by Green McCurtain, dated August 16, 1910, a blueprint and plat of lands desired to be acquired by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company in Murray County
Box 20
Folder
1Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1877
2Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1878
3Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1887
4Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1893
5Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1894
6Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1895
7Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1896
8Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1897
9Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1898
10Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1899
11Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1900
12Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1901
13Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1902
14Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1903
Box 21
Folder
1Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1904
2Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1905
3Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1906
4Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1907
5Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1908
6Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1909
7Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: 1910
8Newspaper Clippings, Transcriptions: Undated
Box 22
Folder
1Messages: 1903
2Messages: 1904
3Messages: 1908
4Messages: 1910
5Messages: Undated
Box 23
Folder
1Choctaw Nation: Undated
2Choctaw Nation: 1901
3Choctaw Nation: 1902
4Choctaw Nation: 1904
5Choctaw Nation: 1905
6State of Oklahoma: 1907 – 1908
7United States Congress and Supreme Court: Undated
8United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1892
9United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1896
10United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1898
11United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1899
12United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1900
13United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1901
14United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1902
15United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1903
16United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1904
18United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1906
19United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1908
20United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1909
21United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1910
Box 24
Folder
1United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1911
2United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1912
3United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1934
4United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1940
5United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1942
6United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1943
7United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1944
8United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1948
9United States Congress and Supreme Court: 1949
10United States Department of the Interior: 1894
11United States Department of the Interior: 1898
12United States Department of the Interior: 1899
13United States Department of the Interior: 1900
14United States Department of the Interior: 1901
15United States Department of the Interior: 1904
16United States Department of the Interior: 1905
17United States Department of the Interior: 1906
18United States Department of the Interior: 1907
19United States Department of the Interior: 1916
Box 25
Folder
1Choctaw Nation: 1869
2Choctaw Nation: 1876 – 1877
3Choctaw Nation: 1881
4Choctaw Nation: 1886 – 1891
5Choctaw Nation: 1891
6Choctaw Nation: 1891
7Choctaw Nation: 1891
Box 26
Folder
1Choctaw Nation: 1899
2Choctaw Nation: 1900
3Choctaw Nation: 1900 – 1901
4Choctaw Nation: 1901
5Choctaw Nation: 1902
6Choctaw Nation: 1903
7Choctaw Nation: 1904
Choctaw Nation: 1905
9Choctaw Nation: 1908
10Constitution and Laws up to 1890
Box 27
Folder
1Booklet: The Atoka Convention of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, South McAlester, Indian Territory : Press of the South McAlester Capital, [April 1900], 17 p. (4 copies)
2Leaflet: "The Surplus Land Question", Executive Committee, Choctaw Nation, South McAlester, Indian Territory, [September 17, 1902] (2 copies)
3Booklet: Addresses and Arguments by prominent men in favor of Separate Statehood for Indian Territory, Kinta, Indian Territory : Enterprise Print, [circa 1905], 32 p. (2 copies)
4Pamphlet [English and Choctaw language] : "What the Choctaw People saved by defeating the 'Court Citizens'” Executive Committee Tushkahoma Party, South McAlester, Indian Territory, [July 11,1904] (6 copies)
5Leaflet [Choctaw language, no translation]: "Hatak Hohchifo Holisso Hat Kokopa He" (re: closing the tribal rolls) [September 25, 1902]
6Booklet: To the Choctaw and Chickasaw People (re: supplementary agreement), Executive Committee Choctaw Nation, South McAlester, Indian Territory [September 8, 1902]
7Booklet: The Coal and Asphalt Question, Executive Committee Choctaw Nation, South McAlester, Indian Territory [September 15, 1903], 12 p.
8Booklet [original in fragile condition]: Applications for Citizenship in Choctaw Nation--Argument for Choctaw Nation, by Josiah Gardner, Stuart, Gordon & Hailey, Attorneys for Choctaw Nation, South McAlester, Indian Territory : Capital Print, [circa 1903], 24 p.
9Booklet: Letter to the President, Toughing Statehood for Indian Territory, 2nd edition, by Walter A. Duncan, Cherokee Delegate, Washington D.C. : Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, [1894], 34 p.
10Booklet [original in fragile condition, back cover mostly torn off]: Prominent Indians' Views of the Political Parties of the Day, [circa 1906 or 1907], 64 p.
11Booklet: Please Distribute to the Chickasaw People: A Few Plain Reasons Why the Choctaws and Chickasaws Should Vote to Ratify the Agreement Made at Atoka, Indian Territory…., By S.W. Peel, Attorney for the Chickasaw Nation at Washington, [circa 1900], 10 p.
12Booklet: Delegates of the Antlers Convention, before the Dawes Commission, Fort Smith, Arkansas : Choctaw Herald Print, [December 9, 1896], 24 p.
13Booklet [hand sewn, English and Choctaw language]: "A History of the Candidates for Governor of the Chickasaw Nation--What Douglas H. Johnston and Richard McLish have been doing for the past twenty years" [circa 1904], 27 p.
14Pamphlet [original in fragile condition]: "Office of the Oklahoma and Indian Territories Inspector" by C.T. Ingalls, Manager, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, [December 4, 1904]
15Pamphlet [English and Choctaw language]: "Platform of the Tuskahoma Party, adopted 1903", with accompanying letter from the executive committee of same [June 16, 1903]
16Booklet: "The 'Court Citizen' Question" Executive Committee Choctaw Nation, South McAlester, Indian Territory, [September 22, 1902], 9 p.
17Pamphlet: "To the Voters of the Choctaw Nation" (re: supplementary agreement), Caddo Herald, Power Printers [circa 1902], 8 p.
18Pamphlet [Choctaw language, no translation]: "Tiak Ai Imma Isht Anumpa….Tuskahoma Party vlheha" Executive Committee, Tushkahoma Party, Harris, Indian Territory, [February 18, 1903], 5 p.
19Pamphlet: "Five Civilized Tribes Protest against Congressional Legislation contemplating annexation of Indian Territory to Oklahoma or Territorial Form of Government" Proceedings of the Eufala Convention [November 28, 1902], 7 p.
20Booklet [English and Choctaw language]: "What the Choctaw People Saved by defeating the 'Court Citizens" Executive Committee Tushkahoma Party, South McAlester, Indian Territory, [July 11, 1904], 8 p.
21Booklet [original in fragile condition]: "A Choctaw Roasts [Ethan Allan] Hitchcock" [Muskogee, Indian Territory] : Muskogee Printing Company, [circa 1900], 13 p.
22Booklet [original in fragile condition]: "Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Session of The Anti-Horse Thief Association (Incorporated)--Indian Territory Division" (held at Claremore, Indian Territory, October 23 and 24, 1907), St. Paul, Kansas : Press of the News, 28 p.
23Booklet [original in fragile condition]: "A Personal Letter to the Choctaw Voters!" (re: improprieties and scandal during Green McCurtain's administration) by Josiah Gardner, Chairman Executive Committee, Union Party, 20 p.
24Leaflet: "Townsite Payment" Executive Committee, Tushkahoma Party, South McAlester, Indian Territory, (July 25, 1904) [18 copies]
25Card: "The Grandfather Amendment" [undated, no political affiliation noted]
26Leaflet [Choctaw language, no translation]: "Chahta Okla Hvt Aha Hash Aiahnashke" [re: feud between the Tuskahoma Party and ex-Governor G.W. Dukes and Hunter], Executive Committee Tuskahoma Party, (July 27, 1903) [2 copies]
27Booklet [Choctaw language, no translation, hand-sewn]: "Chahta, Chikasha I Chulette Himona" (re: Supplementary Agreement) [July 1, 1902], 22 p.
28Booklet: The Fort Smith and Western (Railroad) Magazine--San Bois Route, Vol. 1, No. 4, Fort Smith, Arkansas : Calvert – McBride Co., December 1913 (Quarterly), 32 p.
29Leaflet: "The Tushkahoma Party favor the payment of Townsite Money…Per Capita Payments" Executive Committee Tushkahoma Party, South McAlester, Indian Territory (July 14, 1903)
Box 28
Folder
1A Grammar of the Latin Language, Bingham, Wm., revised by W. Gordon McCabe, Philadelphia : E. H. Butler & Co., c.1884. [The personal property of G.B. McCurtain with many inscriptions. Most of spine and back cover missing.
2"Report of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohawk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples" (1909).
3Price List No. 2039B of Billiard and Pool Table Supplies, October,1908, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. [catalog]
4Loose pages from a text or other book. Pages are entitled, "Treaty of 1837" and "Treaty of 1830", respectively. re: treaties between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and the United States [torn, taped, stained]
5The Indian Orphan, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1, 1903, published at Atoka, Indian Territory bi-monthly by Rev. J.S. Murrow, editor, in the interest of the Murrow Indian Orphans’ Home [newspaper]
6Scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding Green McCurtain and the Tuskahoma Party of the Choctaw Nation. [circa 1900-1906, front cover missing, pages crumbling and some clippings are loose]
7Envelope containing numerous miscellaneous loose news clippings relating to separate statehood for Indian Territory
Box 29
Folder
1Day Book, Personal expense records (1901)
2Day Book, Personal expense records, August 15, 1902 to June 9, 1903
3Checking Account book, Green McCurtain, Kinta State Bank, Kinta, Oklahoma, with 6 receipts dated from November 28, 1910 to December 24, 1910, as well as numerous blank checks
4Autograph book [5.5 x 5 inches, diamond-shaped, green velvet, Victorian], presented to Green McCurtain by "The Office" and signed by various family members, January – June 1906
Box 30
Folder
1Day Book, Choctaw Nation agricultural and familial Roll Book (ca. 1903). [Almost all pages have been mutilated in one way or another, most missing a part. Most were probably done by a child, as a child's drawing decorates the front and back inside covers.]
2Day Book, Freedman Roll of the Choctaw tribe in the Chickasaw Nation (and presumably the Choctaw Nation), in excellent condition (1898)
Box 31
Folder
1Notebook [8.5 x 3.5 inches, cover and binding loose], in which there are names [of constituents?] compiled by towns. Some sort of political listings, most probably of the membership of the Tuskahoma Party. No date.
2Notebook [6.5 x 4 inches, front cover loose, back cover missing], titled “Political Mailing List” in which names are compiled alphabetically. Most likely the membership of the Tuskahoma Party. No date.
3Notebook [7 x 4 inches, burgundy leather cover dry and crumbling], in which personal expenses such as farm rents and livestock sales were recorded, Choctaw Executive Office petty cash expenses, warrants issued and cancelled, Choctaw Treasury reports, Dated March – December, 1900

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