Thrice Purchased: Acquisition and Allotment of the Citizen Potawatomi Reservation (open access)

Thrice Purchased: Acquisition and Allotment of the Citizen Potawatomi Reservation

Article explores the arrival of the Potawatomi in central Oklahoma after being pushed out of their communally held Kansas reserve and into the Indian Territory, the acquisition of a new reservation, and the means used to force them to own land as individuals.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Kraft, Lisa
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
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 1, Spring 2008 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 1, Spring 2008

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 4, Winter 2008-09 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 4, Winter 2008-09

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Unfinished Choctaw Justice: The Murder of Charles Wilson and the Execution of Jackson Crow (open access)

Unfinished Choctaw Justice: The Murder of Charles Wilson and the Execution of Jackson Crow

Article relates the events surrounding the arrest, trial, and acquittal of Charles Wilson's political rival, Robert Benton, in Choctaw court after Wilson was murdered in August 1884. Jackson Crow, a non-Choctaw also accused of the crime, was convicted in federal court and executed in 1888.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Mihesuah, Devon A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2 (open access)

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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Winter 2008-09 (open access)

For the Record, Winter 2008-09

For the Record section including the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 23, 2008.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2008 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2008

Notes and Documents column including an article honoring the individuals who were inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2008. The honorees included in this issue are Danney G. Goble and Odie B. Faulk. The other two honorees, Lawrence Hart and Bob Klemme, appear in the Summer 2008 issue.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Wilson, Linda D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Amazing Grace: The Influence of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Oklahoma Ozark Music and Society (open access)

Amazing Grace: The Influence of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Oklahoma Ozark Music and Society

Article analyzes the effect of religious culture on the development of music in Southeastern Oklahoma, as expressed in hymn singing, temperance songs, instruments, and play-parties.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Castro, J. Justin
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fifteen Men in Ermine: Judges of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 1889-1907 (open access)

Fifteen Men in Ermine: Judges of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 1889-1907

Article is a collective biography of the fifteen men of the Indian Territory court from 1889-1907. The author examines each judge's family history, education, politics, appointment to the bench, pattern of judicial decision making, and post judicial professional life.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Creel, Von Russell
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 2, Summer 2008 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 2, Summer 2008

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 3, Fall 2008 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 86, Number 3, Fall 2008

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History