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An Historic Letter of Interest (open access)

An Historic Letter of Interest

Article is a letter detailing the author's thoughts on why the admission of Little Rock and Fort smith into Cherokee county is unwarranted.
Date: Autumn 1929
Creator: King, Isaac D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
How the Cherokees Acquired the Outlet: Part 1 (open access)

How the Cherokees Acquired the Outlet: Part 1

Article details the treaties that were negotiated to create the Cherokee Outlet, a portion of Indian Territory designated for the resettlement of the Cherokee tribe.
Date: Spring 1937
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sequoyah Orphan's Training School

Photograph of female students at the Sequoyah Orphan's Training School, near Tahlequah, OK, c. 1920-1921.
Date: 1920~/1921~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
Cherokee Occupance in the Oklahoma Ozarks and Prairie Plains (open access)

Cherokee Occupance in the Oklahoma Ozarks and Prairie Plains

Article details how the Cherokee lands were taken over and modified to become livable for settlers during a process known as occupance.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Hewes, Leslie
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alice Ross Howard (open access)

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
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
The Otoe and Missouria Reservation: Part I & II (open access)

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Some Letters from the Reverend Samuel A. Worcester at Park Hill (open access)

Some Letters from the Reverend Samuel A. Worcester at Park Hill

Article contains letters written by the Reverend Samuel A. Worchester after his release from prison and removal from Georgia to Oklahoma following his missionary work with the Cherokee tribe. Worchester was arrested in Georgia for failing to voluntarily move with the tribe out of the state.
Date: Winter 1948
Creator: Shirk, George H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History