Cherokee Nation: Difference between revisions

*[http://www.canadianok.com/Kiamichi.html Western Band Of Cherokee]

'''Cherokee Nation Tribal''' '''Headquarters'''<br>P.O. Box 948<br>Tahlequah, OK 74465<br>Phone: 1-918-453-5000  

*'''1800: '''"Moravian," Protestant missionaries of German origin, established the first mission at Spring Place.  

*'''1801-1823:''' An Indian agent, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_J._Meigs,_Sr. Return J. Meigs], lived among the Cherokee.  

*'''1806:''' a Federal road from Savannah, Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee was built through Cherokee land.  

*'''1816:''' [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/I/IN018.html Lovely's Purchase]. [[Osage Indians|Osage]] agreed to cede land in Arkansas to the United States for the Cherokee people.  

*[[Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs|Central Superintendency]]

Cherokee Nation. Oklahoma Historical Society. Indian Archives (Vital, Land and Property, Court, Probate, and School records) {{FHL|529945|item|disp=FHL film 1666294}} first of 129 films  

*Cherokee Almanac, 1861. By Benjamin Greenleaf {{FHL|737764|item|disp=FHL Fiche 6333956}}

Agency Records 1898-1950 (East) Cherokee Agency. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. {{FHL|144388|item|disp=FHL film 1249974}} first film of 7  

Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. (M0208) {{FHL|285733|item|disp= FHL 1024418}} first of 14 films  

*Five Civilized Indian Tribes Land Allotment Records, 1899-1907, (NARA RG 75) Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On Line. {{FHL |1390101|item|disp=FHL film 4124879}} first film

*Township Plats, Cherokee Nation. Tahlequah, Oklahoma. {{FHL|118773|item|disp= FHL Film: 989209}}

Annuity Records, 1905-1910 {{FHL|29521|item|disp=FHL film 1030883}}  

*'''1835''' [http://hometown.aol.com Cherokee Nation]  

*Probate Records 1892-1908, Northern District Cherokee Nation by Orpha Jewell Wever {{FHL|976.6 P2w|disp=Book: 976.6 P2w}} <br>

Cherokee citizenship documents, 1880. Oklahoma Historical Society Indian Archives Division. {{FHL|785232|disp= FHL film 1666350}} item 3  

*[[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records for Five U.S. Indian Tribes|Dawes Commission Enrollment]] for [[Five Civilized Tribes]]  

''Only the Names Remain''. by Sandi Garrett {{FHL|684750|item|disp=FHL book 970.3 C424gs Vol 1-6 }}  

The [http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html Indian Removal Act] was signed May 26, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. The Act initiated a policy of removal of American Indians tribes living east of the Mississippi River to land west of the river.  

*Library and Archives of Thomsas Gilcrease - Institute of American History

''Annotated Obituaries from the Cherokee Advance'', ''Canton, Georgia, 1880-1938'' by John Carver<br>2003.Over 600 pages.<br>  

*Saline District, Cherokee Nation, School Records 1900 {{FHL|989202|disp=Film: 989202}} item 6  

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The year link (year of the treaty) will connect to an online copy of the treaty.  

*February 14, 1833,

Prior to the I[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Reorganization_Act ndian Reorganization Act], the Bureau of Indian Affairs, through their agencies, may have recorded some vital events. Some were recorded on health forms, such as the "[[American Indian Sanitary Record of Sick, Injured, Births, Deaths, etc.|Sanitary Record of]] Sick, Injured, Births, Deaths, etc." Others were recorded as supplements to the "[[American Indian Census Rolls|Indian Census Rolls]]." Some were included in the unindexed reports and other correspondence of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.  

*Marriage records for Tahlelquah District in the Cherokee Nation, 1892-1897. Oklahoma Historical Society, Indian Archives Division. {{FHL|785224|item|dips= FHL film 1666341 item 12}}

In 1936, the Oklahoma Historical Society and University of Oklahoma requested a writer's project grant from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in which interviews would be conducted with early settlers in Oklahoma who had lived on Indian land. More than 100 writers conducted over 11,000 interviews and were asked to "call upon early settlers and (record) the story of the migration to Oklahoma and their early life here." <ref>Blackburn, Bob L. "Battle Cry for History: The First Century of the Oklahoma Historical Society." n.d. Oklahoma Historical Society. 5 Oct. 1998.</ref> The [http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/ University of Oklahoma Western History Collection] has digitized the Indian Pioneer Papers which consists of approximately 80,000 indexed entries arranged alphabetically by personal name, place name, or subject. <ref>The University of Oklahoma Western History Collections http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/</ref> An index to the Indian Pioneer Papers may also be found at [http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ OkGenWeb Oklahoma Genealogy.] A separate index of Indians interviewed, including the Cherokee, may be viewed at: [http://goodoowah.50megs.com/indpio/ “Indians in the Indian Pioneer Papers”] Some of the surnames from the Cherokee tribe found in the collection are: Adair (Rider), Anderson, Beaver, Brewer, Bohanan, Burch (Choate), Campbell, Candy, Chambers (Ketcher), Coodey, Crutchfield (Lane), Daniels (Cummins), Daughtery (Morris), Drew, Dugan, Duncan, Harlan (James), Keys (Porter), Ketcher (Langley), Langley, Lynch, Marcham, McClure (Keith), Miller (Watts), Morris, Phillips (Keith), Rider (Howland), Ross, Rutherford (Rider), Starr, Vann, West (Spring). Family History Library microfiche number: 6,016,865 (first fiche number)<br>  

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{{Wikipedia|Cherokee}}  

*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itcherok/genealogy/rolls-census.htm Cherokee Nation Indian Territory Research]

*[http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/075.html Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives; Record Group 75], Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.