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Indian allotments -- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Cruce, Cruce and Bleakmore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-140
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Legal documents and correspondence of the law firms of Cruce, Cruce and Cruce (1895-1901); Cruce, Cruce and Bleakmore (1901-1912); and Potter and Cruce (1912-1928) reflecting the firms' practice, representing Indian citizenship and allotment claims, banking interests, and oil and gas companies. Also in the collection are correspondence and speeches from Lee Cruce's Oklahoma gubernatorial campaign of 1907 and his senatorial campaign of 1930.

Dates: 1899-1935
Found in: Western History Collections / Cruce, Cruce and Bleakmore Collection

Jefferson Gardner Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-215
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Typescripts of speeches, letters, and newspaper articles, by and about Gardner, a Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation, relating to issues such as slavery, financial affairs, tribal factionalism, and the allotment of tribal lands by the Dawes Commission.

Dates: 1894-1906
Found in: Western History Collections / Jefferson Gardner Collection

Joseph G. Ralls Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-510
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Correspondence from Ralls' law practice, concerning the representation of various Choctaws during townsite payments and the allotment of Choctaw lands from 1903-1907. Joseph G. Ralls Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1870-1924
Found in: Western History Collections / Joseph G. Ralls Collection

Myrl Adamson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-2161
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Eight Choctaw Nation land allotment certificates in three frames, originally issued to the Rabon family.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Western History Collections / Myrl Adamson Collection

Victor M. Locke, Jr. Collection

 Collection — Box L-26
Identifier: WHC-M-1099
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Choctaw Chief. Typescripts of newspaper articles regarding allotment of land in the Choctaw Nation and Chief Locke's role in the Choctaw tribal government.

Dates: 1900-1927
Found in: Western History Collections / Victor M. Locke, Jr. Collection

Warren P. Chaney Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-95
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Government employee. Correspondence, memoirs, recollections, allotment records, Civil War papers, clippings and other materials relating to Indian Territory, reflecting Chaney's experiences while traveling through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations as clerk in charge of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Allotment Division of the Dawes Commission. Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1864-1935
Found in: Western History Collections / Warren P. Chaney Collection

Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1106
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Warren P. Chaney's work with the Dawes Commission for allotment and severalty of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian lands. Also includes scenes of El Reno and Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory. Warren P. Chaney Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1863-1909
Found in: Western History Collections / Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection

Wilson N. Jones Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-327
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Typescripts of newspaper articles, speeches, editorials and official documents from Jones's term as Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation, concerning tribal politics, land allotment, and mineral rights on Choctaw lands.

Dates: 1890-1935
Found in: Western History Collections / Wilson N. Jones Collection
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