Indian land transfers -- Oklahoma -- History
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
A group of men camped, waiting for the opening. May be Anadarko., undated
A train load of land seekers, at Hereford, Texas, 1906., 1906
Ann Mayer Cooper Collection
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A typewritten manuscript written by Cooper concerning the history of Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Includes information on the land runs into the Sac & Fox, Iowa, and Kickapoo reserves and early county officials.
C. Ross Hume Collection
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Attorney. Personal and business correspondence (1893-1948) relating to Hume's family, his association with the University of Oklahoma, and his activities as an attorney for the Caddo Indians. Also included are numerous legal documents relating to Indian claims and historical papers and documents regarding the Indians of Oklahoma, the Shirley Trading Post, the Anadarko (Oklahoma) area and the University of Oklahoma. C. Ross Hume Photograph Collection also in repository.
Claude Hensley Collection
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Typesetter, Linotype Operator for the Oklahoman. Typescripts of various documents dealing with Quanah Parker, life at Fort Sill and Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory, buffalo hunting, and the memoirs of E.H. Linzee describing the development of Oklahoma Territory. Claude Hensley Photograph Collection also in repository.
Colored postcard entitled “Run of 1889.” However, image is based on Prettyman photo of the 1893 Run into the Cherokee Strip., 1893
Crowd waiting for the opening of the Cherokee Strip. September, 1893. Photo by W. A. Fowler., 1893, Sept
Edward Everett Dale Collection
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Historian. Correspondence, student term papers, theses and dissertations, and personal research materials regarding the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, the state of Oklahoma, Indians of North America and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard and the University of Oklahoma; administrative and other files of the Works Progress Administration's Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. Government documents issued by various cabinet-level departments and agencies, including Agriculture and Interior; and a portion of the University of Oklahoma Persidential papers of James Shannon Buchanan and Stratton D. Brooks. Edward Everett Dale Photograph Collection also in repository.
Edwin K. Wood Collection
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An Act (1875) of the Choctaw Nation establishing burglary as a crime; Acts (1889-1892) of the Cherokee Nation appointing delegates to Washington, D.C.; requests (1905-1906) for payment of salaries and expenses of the attorneys and Special Marshal of the Cherokee Nation; a committee report (1889) regarding payment for Cherokee lands given to the Osage under a Treaty of 1866; and a term paper by Wood entitled "The Indian Treaty Maker.".
First train leaving the line north of Orlando, Oklahoma Territory, for Perry during the Cherokee Strip Opening on Sept. 16, 1893. Covered wagons travel parallel with the train to Perry., 1893, Sept 16
Four Lithographs of emigrant groups planning and then going to Oklahoma., undated
Franklin Campbell Smith Collection
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Minister. A typescript of the Rev. Smith's autobiography (1946) which includes accounts of his experiences in Oklahoma Territory and the origins of Oklahoma place names, as well as stories concerning religion, settlers, cowboys, marshals, the weather, and public opinion regarding the Spanish-American War and the Crazy Snake Rebellion in Indian Territory. The collection also includes a typescript of Smith's biography of James Patrick Major, C.S.A., who held important commands in the Southwest during the Civil War.
Guthrie at the time of the Opening of Oklahoma Territory, 1889., 1889
Homesteaders waiting for the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893., 1893
Looking for a town lot, Guthrie, April 23, 1889., 1889, Apr 23
Margaret Clark Stephens Collection
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Collector. Newspaper and magazine articles (1948-1969) regarding Don Santiago Querque, also known as James Kirker and Don Santiago Kirker; and a photocopy of a manuscript (n.d.) regarding frontier life and conditions near Arkansas City, Kansas, during the opening of the Cherokee Strip and subsequent settlement of the rest of Oklahoma Territory. Margaret Clark Stephens Photograph Collection also in repository.
Painting of the “Run of ‘89” by Robert Lindeaux, 1934., 1934
Robert V. Belt Collection
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Five letter books of correspondence from Belt as Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs to various officials concerning the administration of government Indian policy and legal matters of his private law practice.
Searching for lots, Guthrie, O.T. April 22, 1889., 1889, Apr 22
Start of the run for the Cherokee Strip, Sept. 16, 1893. (Missing), 1983, Sept 16
Stephen Holcombe at the Rock Island depot, on his way to pick his claim near Hobart – he had drawn the first claim at the land lottery. Anadarko (Okla.) July 21 [29], 1901., 1901, Jul 21 [29]
“Strippers waiting in line, Sept. 16, 1893” for opening of Cherokee Strip., 1893, Sept 16
“Strippers” waiting to start the run into Cherokee Strip, 1893., 1893
Waiting for the signal on the south line of the Cherokee Strip, Sept. 16, 1893. Photographer- W.A. Fowler, Guthrie, O.T., 1983, Sept 16
Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection
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.
William P. Boudinot Collection
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Editor. Typescripts of articles by and about William P. Boudinot from various Cherokee Indian newspapers.
Willie Turtle Collection
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Collector. Four land allotment documents (1901-1911) from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, signed over to four Kiowa Indians. All four were signed by William McKinley. The collection also includes weekly ration tickets (ca. 1944) for the Geimansaddle family.