Proclamations

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Flyers, leaflets, and handbills advertising the lands in Oklahoma Territory, both settled and unsettled. Also contains a proclamation (1893) by Territorial Governor William Renfrow and a commencement ceremony program (1882) from Indian University in Muskogee, Indian Territory.

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One letter from former U.S. Marshal Chris Madsen (1937); a proclamation by Territorial Governor Cassius M. Barnes welcoming New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt; reprint of a publication entitled "Opening of Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma"; a program of the Roosevelt Rough Riders Reunion of 1900 in Oklahoma City; a typescript entitled "Oklahoma Criminals with a History, 1889-1933"; a magazine entitled"Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" (1899); a key to Oklahoma City, dated 1900; and one textbook entitled "The American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster.

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Indian Chief. Correspondence, annual messages, memoirs, autobiography, proclamations, and other papers relating to political matters in which Bushyhead was involved as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1879-1887 and as a representative to the Dawes Commission, and relating to the controversies growing out of the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association's operations.

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Correspondence, proclamations, resolutions and reports of the Commission, along with calendars of Commission-sponsored activities celebrating the 75th anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood.

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Collector. Proclamations (1892-1898) issued by the governors of the Territory of Oklahoma regarding the official observance of Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day holidays.

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Conservation organization. Materials used in an exhibit for National Wildlife Week (March, 1953) in Oklahoma, including Governor Johnston Murray's signed proclamation, a pamphlet from the National Wildlife Federation, a map showing the distribution of the prairie chicken in Oklahoma, and a copy (March, 1953) of "Oklahoma Game and Fish News." Oklahoma Outdoor Council Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Typescripts of correspondence, speeches and proclamations, and newspaper articles relating to Porter as Principal Chief of the Creek Nation and President of the Sequoyah Convention, to the allotment of land by the Dawes Commissison, the termination of tribal government, and the Sequoyah Movement.

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Subject collection. Proclamations issued by governors and Indian chiefs recognizing special days and events in several states and territories of the United States. Included are days of thanks, fasting, prayer, and humiliation, Arbor Day, and the death of President James A. Garfield.

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Documents regarding territorial and early statehood-era Kansas, including land settlement brochures, U.S. Centennial Celebration programs (1876), and government proclamations and patriotic programs (1863-1873). Also a leaflet (1879) regarding the settlement of former slaves in Kansas, and a leaflet (1888) published by the Plainsville School Board denying that it was ordering history texts sympathetic to the Confederate cause.