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Choctaw Indians -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

John Wesley Morris Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1647
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1880-1975
Found in: Western History Collections / John Wesley Morris Photograph Collection

Mrs. L. A. French Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-861
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy print of the last legal execution in the Choctaw Nation, in 1894 at Red Oak, Indian Territory.

Dates: 1894
Found in: Western History Collections / Mrs. L. A. French Photograph Collection

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-495
Scope and Contents

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Choctaw Chief. Correspondence of Pitchlynn with prominent citizens and family members in the Choctaw Nation; personal journals (1815) and diary (1828-1832) of Pitchlynn; official reports (1825-1841) of the Choctaw Academy in Kentucky; and Pitchlynn family records (1806-1867). Also includes a signed copy of the articles of surrender and peace negotiated between the Choctaw Nation and the United States at the close of the Civil War, and extensive correspondence reflecting the state of the Choctaw Nation just prior to and during the Civil War years, with special regard to slavery. Peter Pitchlynn Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1815-1922
Found in: Western History Collections / Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Collection
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