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[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0616]

Teenage boy irons clothes while teenage girl looks on.
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0613]

Two boys and a girl decorate church pews at the Methodist Home.
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0617]

Two little boys climbing ladder to slide.
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0614]

Boy and girl look at a model of the Nativity.
Date: 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0615]

Teenage boy hands decorative candy canes to girl decorating fireplace mantle.
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exterior of St. Basil Episcopal Church, Tahlequah

Red brick, wood shingle roof, lettering on front of building "ST. BASIL" Built in 1962, it is located at 814 N. Vinita.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Newpaper Article About St. Matthias Episcopal Church (open access)

Newpaper Article About St. Matthias Episcopal Church

Newspaper article from Tahlequah Daily Press, April 1988. Congregation meeting at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church has taken St. Matthias as patron saint and applied for recognition.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Miss Fletcher Wickham

Miss Fletcher Wickham standing beside sign for St. Basil's Protestant Episcopal Church. Information on back of photo states the house was the first building of St. Basil's Episcopal Church, Tahlequah, located at corner of York and Vinita Streets.
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Interior of St. Basil Episcopal Church, Tahlequah

A postcard of St. Basil's. The church has exposed brick walls, wood pews, and covered altar. The interior is decorated with Christmas wreaths and poinsettias. The icon on the right was given to the church from Rt. Reverend Chilton Powell.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Plat Map for Township 19 North, Range 21 East

Plat map with names of land owners. Shows the boundaries of land parcels.
Date: unknown
Creator: Indian Territory Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Plat map for Township 15 North, Range 19 East

Plat map with names of land owners. Shows the boundaries of land parcels.
Date: unknown
Creator: Indian Territory Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Plat map for Township 17 North, Range 22 East

Plat map with names of land owners. Shows the boundaries of land parcels.
Date: unknown
Creator: Indian Territory Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Plat map for Township 14 North, Range 20 East

Plat map with names of land owners. Shows boundaries of land parcels.
Date: unknown
Creator: Indian Territory Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Diana, Tiana, or Talihina? The Myth and Mystery of Sam Houston's Cherokee Wife (open access)

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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
State Protection of Historical Centers (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind of the Cherokee Nation (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Trial of Ezekiel Proctor and the Problem of Judicial Jurisdiction (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sustaining the Cherokee's Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School (open access)

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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Intruders at Chilocco (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Legacy of Education: The History of the Cherokee Seminaries (open access)

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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Cherokee Male Seminary Baseball Team, 1876-1908 (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Rock Falls Raid, An Analysis of the Documentary Evidence (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2012-13 (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History