Creek Indians -- Tribal citizenship

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Court decisions, treasury warrants and related legal documents (1868-1900); correspondence (1873-1898); and typescripts of newspaper articles (1849-1943), all relating to land, institutions and the affairs of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory. Correspondents include Samuel Checote, Ward Coachman, Joseph M. Perryman and Isparecher.

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Typescripts of articles and poems written by the Creek Indian poet Alex Posey; also included are articles concerning Posey's activities while a member of the Dawes Commission, the opposition to allotment by the Snake Clan of Creek Indians, and Creek opposition to Oklahoma statehood. Mrs. Alfred Mitchell Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Tribal enrollment record (1902) of Thomas Pumpkin, or Tah Sa Co Fah Ahwee, a Euchee Creek Indian, with subsequent notes (1904-1909) that Pumpkin died 1899, three years before being enrolled by the Dawes Commission and ten years before final approval of his enrollment.