Author: United States. Commission to the Five Civilized TribesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory
Author: United States. Commission to the Five Civilized TribesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Seminole Freedmen
Author: Kevin MulroyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of Seminole-black identity and community from their eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present day. Arguing that the Seminole freedmen are neither Seminoles, Africans, nor “black Indians,” Mulroy proposes that they are maroon descendants who inhabit their own racial and cultural category, which he calls “Seminole maroon.” Mulroy plumbs the historical record to show clearly that, although allied with the Seminoles, these maroons formed independent and autonomous communities that dealt with European American society differently than either Indians or African Americans did. Mulroy describes the freedmen’s experiences as runaways from southern plantations, slaves of American Indians, participants in the Seminole Wars, and emigrants to the West. He then recounts their history during the Civil War, Reconstruction, enrollment and allotment under the Dawes Act, and early Oklahoma statehood. He also considers freedmen relations with Seminoles in Oklahoma during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although freedmen and Seminoles enjoy a partially shared past, this book shows that the freedmen’s history and culture are unique and entirely their own.
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Author: Richard Irving DodgePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
"These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory
Author: Of The Interior U.S. DepartmentPublisher: Editora Gente Liv e Edit Ltd
ISBN: 9780806317397
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Note: Freedmen are Afro-Americans.
Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States
Author: United States. Court of ClaimsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
Author: Izumi IshiiPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216303
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. While acknowledging the addictive and socially destructive effects of alcohol, Izumi Ishii also examines the ways in which alcohol was culturally integrated into Native society and how it served the overarching economic and political goals of the Cherokee Nation. ø Europeans introduced alcohol into Cherokee society during the colonial era, trading it for deerskins and using it to cement alliances with chiefs. In turn Cherokee leaders often redistributed alcohol among their people in order to buttress their power and regulate the substance?s consumption. Alcohol was also seen as containing spiritual power and was accordingly consumed in highly ritualized ceremonies. During the early-nineteenth century, Cherokee entrepreneurs learned enough about the business of the alcohol trade to throw off their American partners and begin operating alone within the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokees intensified their internal efforts to regulate alcohol consumption during the 1820s to demonstrate that they were ?civilized? and deserved to coexist with American citizens rather than be forcibly relocated westward. After removal from their land, however, the erosion of Cherokee sovereignty undermined the nation?s ongoing attempts to regulate alcohol. Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree provides a new historical framework within which to study the meeting between Natives and Europeans in the New World and the impact of alcohol on Native communities.
Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court
Author: United States. Court of ClaimsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Indian Land Laws
Author: Samuel Thomas BledsoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
National Archives Microfilm Publications in the National Archives, New England Region
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. New England RegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A Traveler in Indian Territory
Author: Ethan Allen HitchcockPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128405
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last decade. Hitchcock's report, filed after four months of travel, exposed such a high level of graft and corruption that his investigation was suppressed and never brought to the attention of Congress. Hitchcock kept nine personal diaries of his travels and observations, however, and they reveal much historic and ethnographic information on Indian life in Indian Territory. He observes how the Indians were adjusting alter removal and includes many details on their customs, beliefs, culture, religion, ceremonies, amusements, industry, tribal councils, and government. To aid the modern reader, editor Grant Foreman provides an introduction and annotations, and Michael D. Green, in his foreword, explains the politics behind Hitchcock's mission to Indian Territory and his accomplishments in advancing ethnographic knowledge.
