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A History of the Cherokee Indians: Continued from September
Article chronicles the history of the Cherokee tribe from protests for their removal to Oklahoma through the aftereffects of the Civil War.
Date:
Winter 1930
Creator:
Cunningham, Hugh T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Aunt Eliza of Tahlequah
Article chronicles the life of Eliza Missouri Bushyhead, a prominent teacher at the Cherokee Female Seminary at Tahlequah. The article compares her life to her father's, Jesse Bushyhead, who was a missionary based in the Cherokee Nation.
Date:
Spring 1931
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet: Continued
Article continues narrating the events that transpired during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet for settling while also detailing the processes for acquiring land within the region.
Date:
Winter 1931
Creator:
Milam, Joe B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet
Article details how the Cherokee tribe divided their lands and established a prosperous community with other surrounding tribes during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet.
Date:
Autumn 1931
Creator:
Milam, Joe B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Grand June Council
Article narrates how the American Indian tribes of North America gathered a Grand Conference to establish peaceful relations between them, held in June of 1843.
Date:
Winter 1932
Creator:
Sigourney, Lydia Huntly
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Story of the Telephone in Oklahoma
Article chronicles how E. D. Hicks brought the telephone to the Cherokee Nation and its impact on the community.
Date:
Autumn 1934
Creator:
Fullerton, Eula E.
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
Ensign L. L. Culver: "You can call me salty now"
Article recounts the life and rigorous training experience of undertaker-turned-ensign L.L. Culver in the United States navy in the early years of World War II. Brad Agnew reconstructs the officer's experiences from letters sent home, and concludes the article with the beginning of a journey that is continued in the Spring 2003 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma.
Date:
Winter 2002
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Park Hill Mission: Letters from a Missionary Family
Article describes the lives of Reverend Joseph Leiper, wife Fanny Leiper, and Joseph's aunt Margeret McCarrell in their lives as Presbyterian missionaries running the Park Hill Mission, which functioned as both a church and a school for Cherokee residents of the area. Krisitna L. Southwell also describes the founding of the McCarrell Institute, one of the only schools for African American children in the area at the time.
Date:
Summer 2000
Creator:
Southwell, Kristina L.
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 Cultural Relations Between Two Pioneer Communities
Article compares the communities of Cane Hill, Arkansas, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the progress of the two regions in the Cherokee Nation. T. L. Ballenger discusses the development of national seminaries in the areas and the people who settled there.
Date:
Autumn 1956
Creator:
Ballenger, T. 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
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
Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape
This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date:
Summer 2013
Creator:
Reavis, Jack Anthony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Few Hundred People Can't Do Anything with 75 Million!": The Cherokee Advocate and the Inevitability of Allotment
This article chronicles the effort of The Cherokee Advocate newspaper to inform readers about the benefits and perils of assigning land to individuals and to urge Cherokees understand the necessity of allotment.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Miller, Robert D.
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
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
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
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
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
Spreading the gospel in Indian Territory and Early Oklahoma: The Reverend F. F. Dobson and Anna (Truan) Dobson
Article provides a biographical tribute to Presybterian minister F. F. Dobson and his wife Anna, portraying the difficulties they faced in Indian Territory as well as their successes in joining the community.
Date:
Winter 2016
Creator:
Olds, Greg
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Educational and Cultural Influences of the Cherokee Seminaries
Article discusses the impact of studying at the Cherokee national seminaries through a paper read at the "Homecoming" of the Cherokee Seminaries Students Association meeting at Tahlequah on May 7, 1958. Ida Wetzel Tinnin discusses her own experiences as a graduate, the curriculum and environment of the schools, and the events that provided a historical backdrop for their growth.
Date:
Spring 1959
Creator:
Tinnin, Ida Wetzel
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
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