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Choctaw Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:

Choctaw Light Horsemen, Antlers, Indian territory, 1893. Four mounted, others standing. All are armed., 1893

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1523
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Choctaw light horsemen gathered with Choctaw Governor Wilson Jones.  They are waiting for reinforcements at South McAlester before attacking the Insurgents at North McAlester then known as North Town.  The majority of men are carrying rifles., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 49
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Choctaw senate in session, 1911. Tuskahoma, Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1522
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Choctaw students and staff gathered in front of Goodland Academy, a famous school for Choctaw boys and girls.  Instructor kneeling on the right is holding a switch., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 47
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Choctaw Tribal Court, 1894. Held in a tent about 6 miles NE of Bosewell., 1894

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1519
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1894
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Choctaw woman with child.  Identified as Josiah Gardner’s daughter who eventually married Culbertson Thompson, an insurgent Choctaw.  She was pressed into service to cook for the insurgents.  Poor photograph., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

C.H.P.  James, Choctaw, of McAlester, I.T.  Bust only. Studio portrait.  See #28 for negative., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Cokeman Cole, Choctaw Chief., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1518
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Coleman Cole Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-117
Scope and Contents

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Choctaw Chief. Typescripts of correspondence relating to Choctaw participation in the Indian Union proposal developed in the Okmulgee Council; published speeches; Choctaw Tribal Council proceedings; accounts of Choctaw court cases; and other papers pertaining to intruders, tribal citizenship, and royalties from Choctaw coal lands, all during the period of Cole's tenure as Principal Chief, 1874-1878.

Dates: 1875-1879
Found in: Western History Collections

Commission of the Chickasaw and Choctaw that sold the old Choctaw Capital at Tushkahoma – May 1928.  1. Wm. Ward 2. A.L. Irvine 3. J.E. Tidwell 4. J.D. Fulton 5. J.F. Tomlin 6. D. Budris  7. J.B. Queen 8. W.H. Angell 9. J.G. Farr.  (Oversized Photo), 1928

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 44
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1928
Found in: Western History Collections / Gaston Litton Photograph Collection

Daniel Bond, Choctaw, standing.  Studio portrait, Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Dennis Carr family standing in front of their home with their horse.  In 1879, the Choctaw Council by special act declared the Carrs members of the tribe., 1879

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1879
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Devon A. Mihesuah Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-2893
Scope and Contents

Writer. Papers (1975-2020) of Choctaw author and historian Devon A. Mihesuah. The papers document her career as a researcher and writer, and her work for Indigenous rights and empowerment in the United States. The collection contains research files for several books authored by Mihesuah, including Indigenizing the Academy and Cultivating the Rosebuds, as well as research project files from her grants and fellowships. The papers also contain news clippings, correspondence, and collected materials on Mihesuah’s activist work on Indigenous burial site desecration, and on activities of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the 1970s-1980s and related subjects.

Dates: 1975-2020
Found in: Western History Collections

Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1931
Scope and Contents

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Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Dates: 1967-1972
Found in: Western History Collections

Ellis Freeny Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-2586
Scope and Contents

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Collector. Biographical and genealogical materials (1897-1903) gathered by Ellis Freeny regarding Choctaw chief Peter Perkins Pitchlynn and the Pitchlynn family.

Dates: 1897-1903
Found in: Western History Collections

Enrollment of citizens of the Choctaw Nation in 1899., 1899

 Item — Box Photo P-34, Item: 3070
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1899
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Execution of Silan Lewis, November 5, 1894, Choctaw.  Lewis was executed for the shooting of Joe Huklotubby.  On back of photo:  “When time arrived – after two stays of execution – Lewis presented himself to be shot.  Took off his shoes and prayed.  Two deputies held him as he knelt on a blanket.  Lyman Pulsey stood ten steps away and shot out a white spot of damp flour on Silan’s breast.  Wife threw herself upon the dying man.  Lewis was a member of the Insurgents who opposed statehood.”  Photograph is very poor., 1894 November 5

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 51
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1894 November 5
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Family and close relatives of one of the Woods brothers, Ben (seated in center) who gathered together for a feast and farewell reunion for him, Choctaw.  He was afflicted with incurable cancer.  Standing behind the host is Gilbert Dukes, Choctaw.  Picture is poor., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

First Choctaw tribal council at Tuskahoma, I.T. 1905. Personalities are identified: 1. Jacob Jones; 2. R.W. Thomas; 3. Willis Cooper; 4. Comer McKinney; 5. J.P. Thompson; 6. J.W. Consor; 7. C.W. Welsh; 8. Jon Sonescol; 9. Bill Blue; 10. Simon Pulsey; 11. Wm. McKinnty; 12. Peter Wilson; 13. E. Lester (Gov.’s Sec.); 14. C.W. Choate, (Pres. Sen.); 15. Green McCurtain (Prin. Chief); 16. Calvin Rowell; 17. Paul Stephens; 18. Wilson Shoney; 19. Tandy Anderson; 20. George Crowder; 21. Daniel Webster; 22. C.H. Jones; 23. Lee Allison; 24. Edgar H. Moore (Member 1st State Leg.); 25. E. Sanguin; 26. Morris Williams; 27. J.I. Christie; 28. P.W. Hudson; 29. J.I. Hickman; 30. Ellis Jefferson; 31. Simpson Wilson; 32. H.E. Hontubby (Lighthorse); 33. Simpson Colbert (Speaker of the House); 34. Simon Taylor; 35. Ellis Buhannon; 36. J.P. Tims; 37. J.L. Ward; 38. P.T. Everidge; 39. L.H. Perkins; 40. Peter Maytubby Jr.; 41 T.L. Griggs; 42. J.M. Harrison; 43. A.H. Clay; 44. Cut off; 45. S.M. Harkins; 46. Frank Fulsom; 47. Edward White; 48. Don Fulsom; 49. S.W. Maytubby; 50. Jess Fulton; 51. M.H. LeFlore. (Oversize), 1905

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Kiowa, Wichita, Cheyenne, Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. The collection includes scenes of the Choctaw tribal council house, Muskogee, Indian Territory, and the Goodland Indian School. Jay L. Hargett Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Western History Collections / Jay L. Hargett Photograph Collection

George Hudson, Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation, 1860-1862., 1860-1862

 Item — Box Photo P-22, Item: 1265
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1860-1862
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

George Nelson, interpreter in Indian service in McAlester. Choctaw. 2 copies, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-2, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of George Nelson, a Choctaw Indians who was an interpreter for the United States Indian Service at McAlester, Oklahoma. George Nelson Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / George Nelson Photograph Collection

Gilbert Dukes, Choctaw Governor, sitting in a rocking chair on a porch.  See #24 for negative., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Governor Cyrus Harris of the Choctaw., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-34d, Item: 3475
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Governor Gilbert Dukes of the Choctaw Nation, left, and Ben Willis, right, Choctaw.  Studio portrait, scratched and unclear., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Governor Green McCurtain. Choctaw. Studio portrait. Photographer - ________, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Original, 4x6. Photographer’s board., undated

 Item — Box Photo R-10, item: 37
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Arikara, Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cayuse, Comanche, Crow, Cherokee, Cayuga, Chinook, Caddo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Cheyenne, Delaware, Hidatsa, Hopi, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kichai, Kiowa, Klamath, Laguna, Moki, Modoc, Makah, Mandan, Makah, Mandan, Miami, Missouri, Nez Perce, Onadaga, Omaha, Oto, Osage, Paiute, Puyallup, Pawnee, Peoria, Papago, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Ponca, Quapaw, Quinault, Sac and Fox, Salish, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Shoshoni, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Winnebago, Wyandotte, Yakima, Yuma, Yuchi, and Zuni Indians. George Rainey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / George Rainey Photograph Collection

Governor Thompson McKinney of the Choctaw Nation.  He was buried in a pasture near Wilburton, OK.  Studio portrait., Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Granny Pulsey, Choctaw, with her two adopted sons on the porch of their home.  Granny was a small girl when she came from Mississippi to Oklahoma in the 1820’s.  “She was proud of her home near Gerty, Hughes County, and took the orphan lads shown in this picture to raise as her own sons.  When Granny was nearly a hundred, one of the boys shot at a bird but missed and shot Granny in the side.  She died almost at once, but she gave forgiveness to the heartbroken lad before she breathed her last.”, Undated

 Item — Box Photo B-30, Item: 46
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Choctaw Indians, including studio protraits, the Choctaw Lighthorse, schools, and tribal government officials. The collection also includes photographs of participants in the Choctaw conflict known as the Locke-Jones War or the Antlers War, along with scenes of the towns of McAlester, Antlers, and Ti, Indian Territory. Hobert Otho Boggs Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Hobert Otho Boggs Photograph Collection

Green McCurtain, Chief of the Choctaw., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-22, Item: 1277
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Green McCurtain, Choctaw Chief, portrait., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-17, item: 33
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of David Ross Boyd, his family, scenes from the first ten years of the University of Oklahoma, including the first faculty, students and buildings. The collection also contains images of the Rough Riders Reunion at Oklahoma City in 1910. David Ross Boyd Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / David Ross Boyd Photograph Collection

Green McCurtain Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8613
Identifier: WHC-M-391
Scope and Contents

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Indian Chief. Correspondence (1890-1916) to and from McCurtain and his personal secretary, George W. Scott, regarding the Choctaws' claims against the United States, and separate statehood for Indian Territory, including letters from Chiefs of other major Indian tribes in the Territory; maps of railroad rights-of-way and towns in the Choctaw Nation (1876-1908), published by its general council; publications (1896-1913) by various political parties and citizens groups in the Choctaw Nation; publications (1892-1916) of the U.S. government regarding mineral rights of the Choctaw Nation and Indian Territory; and personal journals of McCurtain. Green McCurtain Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1890-1916
Found in: Western History Collections
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