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Indian allotments -- Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 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

Jonas Wolf Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-678
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Typescripts of messages, statements and proclamations (1884-1900) made by Wolf as Governor of the Chickasaw Nation on the issues of land use, finance, allotment of land and statehood, along with typescripts of newspaper articles and editorials (1894) regarding Wolf's arrest for embezzlement.

Dates: 1884-1900

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

Robert M. Harris Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1050
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Typescripts from various Oklahoma newspaper articles concerning Harris's term as governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1896 to 1898, Chickasaw legislation, and biographical material on Harris.

Dates: 1896-1927

Tecumseh A. McClure Collection

 Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1077
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Chickasaw Chief. Typescript of newspaper article regarding Gov. McClure's call for a special session of the Chickasaw Legislature to debate the Dawes Commission proposals for the allotment of Chickasaw lands.

Dates: 1894

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

Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1106
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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