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Diana, Tiana, or Talihina? The Myth and Mystery of Sam Houston's Cherokee Wife
Article examines the identity of Sam Houston's part-Cherokee wife, who has been attributed several different names in historical documentation related to her existence. Stan Hoig investigates the women who might have possibly been confused with Diana, Tiana, or Talahina Houston, as well as how this confusion left its mark on a grave.
Date:
Summer 1986
Creator:
Hoig, Stan
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
State Protection of Historical Centers
Article introduces and transcribes the round-table discussion of members of the Oklahoma Historical Society at their annual meeting at Tahlequah on May 7 regarding state protection of historical centers. Berlin B. Chapman records what was said by Dr. J. Stanley Clark, Colonel George H. Shirk, Dr. Emma Estill-Harbour, Miss Muriel H. Wright, Mr. Thomas J. Harrison, Dr. Berlin B. Chapman, Dr. Anna Lewis, and Dr. Angie Debo.
Date:
Summer 1951
Creator:
Chapman, Berlin B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind of the Cherokee Nation
Article chronicles the establishment of the first orphanage and asylum within the Cherokee Nation.
Date:
Winter 1943
Creator:
Steen, Carl T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader
Article traces the life and genealogy of S. R. Walkingstick to show the ways in which one Cherokee family contributed to the tribal and state community.
Date:
Summer 2018
Creator:
McCullagh, James G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Trial of Ezekiel Proctor and the Problem of Judicial Jurisdiction
Article narrates the events surrounding the "Tragedy of Goingsnake," a shootout that resulted in nine deaths and numerous wounded. The shootout resulted from a judicial jurisdiction dispute regarding the trial of Ezekiel Proctor, a Cherokee man charged with the murder of Polly Kesterson.
Date:
Autumn 1970
Creator:
Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr. & Underhill, Lonnie E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sustaining the Cherokee's Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School
Article describes the political and social process of convincing the legislature to place one of the state's normal schools, or teachers' colleges, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. By this process local citizens of Tahlequah secured Northeastern State Normal School for their town.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Intruders at Chilocco
Article details how the United States government created the Chilocco Indian School within contested borders of the Cherokee Nation.
Date:
Summer 1972
Creator:
Savage, William W., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Legacy of Education: The History of the Cherokee Seminaries
Article depicts the construction and history of the Cherokee National Female and Male Seminaries near Park Hill. Brad Agnew highlights accounts from educators, students, Indian agents, and the Cherokee administration to provide a more complete picture of the legacy and impact of these institutions.
Date:
Summer 1985
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Cherokee Male Seminary Baseball Team, 1876-1908
Article traces the history of baseball at the Cherokee Male Seminary, chronicling the names of the men who played and the successes and failures of the teams.
Date:
Summer 2015
Creator:
McCullagh, James G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Rock Falls Raid, An Analysis of the Documentary Evidence
Article narrates the legal and political battles fought over settlement of the Cherokee Outlet that accumulated into the creation of Rock Falls, a townsite that forced a confrontation between cattlemen and government agencies.
Date:
Spring 1971
Creator:
Savage, William W., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2012-13
Notes and Documents column including James G. McCullagh's "Mayme Jane Starr (1879-1901): A "Cherokee Rose Bud" and Her Family Remembered," a short article that remembers the life of Mayme Jane Starr, a Cherokee woman and educator at Cherokee National Female Seminary.
Date:
Winter 2012
Creator:
McCullagh, James G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Otoe and Missouria Reservation: Part I & II
Article chronicles the establishment and dissolution of the Otoe and Missouria Reservation, the sixth and last reservation established in the Cherokee county.
Date:
Summer 1948
Creator:
Chapman, Berlin B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gridiron Pioneers at the Cherokee National Male Seminary, 1896-1909
Article tells the story of Cherokee National Male Seminary's football team and its players who shaped the legacy of the team and the future of the Cherokee Nation.
Date:
Autumn 2014
Creator:
McCullagh, James G. & Schmidt, Stephanie
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reverend Theodore Manneseh Rights, His Sons, and the Cherokee National Male Seminary
Article investigates the education of three sons of Theodore M. Rights, a Moravian missionary to the Cherokee Nation, at Cherokee National Male Seminary and discusses the controversy surrounding the graduation of the second son, Eugene Jesse Rights.
Date:
Winter 2016
Creator:
McCullagh, James G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901-04
Article provides a biographical tribute to Etta Jane Rider, principal teacher of the Cherokee National Female Seminary from 1901-1904, and to the assistant teachers who joined her in educating young Cherokee women.
Date:
Winter 2018
Creator:
McCullagh, James G. & Davis, James S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2
The second part of this two-part article continues the evaluation of the problems in Indian healthcare and the campaign led by Senators Fred Harris and Dewey Bartlett to correct a record of neglect. The healthcare problem after 1970 was linked to a new federal policy of tribal self-determination.
Date:
Spring 2008
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Northeastern's Seminary Hall
Article chronicles the history of the building that hosted Seminary Hall, the first co-educational public seminary school in the world, located on the Northeastern State College campus.
Date:
Winter 1973
Creator:
Halliburton, R., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alice Ross Howard
Article chronicles the life of Alice Ross Howard, a distant relative of Chief John Ross of the Eastern Cherokee Nation. The article follows Howard and her family as they escape from the Civil War to the North and return to rebuild their lives within the Cherokee Nation.
Date:
Autumn 1945
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Around Tahlequah Council Fires: The Life of Oklahoma Historian T. L. Ballenger
Article describes the life of Tom Lee Ballenger, a professor at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah who spent a lifetime educating students and researching the history of Oklahoma. The title of the article is taken from an anthology Ballenger wrote about the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the people who established it.
Date:
Autumn 1982
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Colored High School of the Cherokee Nation
Article discusses the call for and establishment of a high school for freedmen in the Cherokee Nation in 1890, the rights black freed persons had in early Indian Territory, the students who attended the school, and records of the school.
Date:
Winter 1952
Creator:
Ballenger, T. L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Final Campaign: The Confederate Offensive of 1864
Article details the campaign of Confederate Major General Samuel Bell Maxey against the federal army at Forts Smith and Gibson in Indian Territory. Tom Franzmann attests that the campaign is often overlooked in Oklahoma history and requires a more thorough exposure to determine its effectiveness.
Date:
Autumn 1985
Creator:
Franzmann, Tom L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Park Hill's Ross Cemetery
Article relates the results of the survey that took place in Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 by Lois E. Wilson Albert and members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society to thoroughly document the Ross Cemetery at Park Hill for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ross Cemetery contains the remains of members of one of the most prominent Cherokee families of the nineteenth century.
Date:
Spring 2013
Creator:
Wilson Albert, Lois E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
When the Cherokee Nation was a Mormon Sanctuary
Article outlines the migration of Mormons from Texas to Utah in the mid-1800s, focusing on the period they spent living in the Cherokee Nation before deciding whether to continue their trek or stay and settle in Indian Territory.
Date:
Summer 2017
Creator:
LeBaron, Allen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History