Tonkawa (Okla.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection
Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-264
Scope and Contents
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Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates:
1832-1958
