Order authorizing provisions at public expense for two Cherokee Indians, 1755
Dart, BenjaminView Full Item in Newberry LibraryOrder, January 13, 1755, authorizing provisions at public expense for two Cherokee Indians. The Cherokees were returning home, presumably from Charleston, and were to be supplied with one day's provis…
Letters from missionaries among the Indians
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852View Full Item in Newberry LibraryJohn Howard Payne: Traditions of the Cherokees, 172 pp., n.d. The John Howard Payne Papers primarily relate to the Cherokee Indians between 1794 and 1841 (bulk 1814-1841). This extensive collection co…
J. Harlan correspondence with John Ross, 1865
Harlan, JView Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
State of Georgia, by His Excellency George R. Gilmer, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia thereof,…
Gilmer, George Rockingham, 1790-1859View Full Item in Newberry LibraryLand grant, signed by Georgia governor George R. Gilmer [in Milledgeville] on Dec. 21, 1837, awarding 160 acres of Creek Lands in Cherokee County, formerly occupied by the Cherokee Tribe, to James Gri…
James Seagrove letter to James Jackson, 1799
Seagrove, JamesView Full Item in Newberry LibraryLetter, dated June 17, 1799, written by Indian agent James Seagrove from the military post at Point Peter, Georgia to James Jackson, Governor of Georgia. In this letter Seagrove informs Jackson that h…
Honey-suckle Cherokee Basket
View Full Item in Illinois State UniversityHoney-suckle, shallow, oval shaped, Cherokee.
Thomas L. McKenney Loraine letters, 1820-1843
McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859View Full Item in Newberry LibrarySmall collection of four letters written by Thomas L. McKenney to various correspondents between 1820 and 1843. Concerning official government business, the correspondents in the first three letters (…
W. C. Rogers letter to Commission to Five Civilized Tribes regarding reallotment of land, 1905
Rogers, W.CView Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
Address to Alumni Association, Cherokee Male Seminary
View Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
Governer Archibald Yell letter to Major General Winfield Scott, 1843
Yell, Archibald, 1797-1847View Full Item in Newberry LibraryLetter written by Gov. Archibald Yell to Major Gen. Winfield Scott, commander of the U.S. Army, regarding the unprotected state of the Arkansas frontier. Yell writes that ""there are not less than 50…
D. N. Cooley resolution not to recognize John Ross as principal Chief of Cherokee, 1865
Cooley, D.NView Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
D. N. Cooley letter regarding John Ross not recognized as Chief, 1865
Cooley, D.NView Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
L. Ross letter to McMichael declining to return checks, 1865
View Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…
Fort Gibson barracks building interior photograph, 1894
Standiford, J. DView Full Item in Newberry LibraryGovernor Moore message to the House of Representatives, 1786
Moultrie, William, 1730-1805View Full Item in Newberry LibraryFeb. 9, 1786, message to the House of Representatives regarding the conflict between South Carolina legislation permitting white settlement northwest of the ancient boundary line between the Cherokee…
John Baptista Ashe letter to His Excellency, Richard Caswell esquire, 1787
Ashe, John Baptista, 1748-1802View Full Item in Newberry LibraryLetter dated Aug. 16, 1787 written by Ashe while serving in Congress in New York City to Richard Caswell, Governor of North Carolina. Ashe sent this letter to Caswell reporting on the status of a reso…
Memoranda regarding execution of the Cherokee treaty of 1835
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852View Full Item in Newberry LibraryJohn Howard Payne: Traditions of the Cherokees, 172 pp., n.d. The John Howard Payne Papers primarily relate to the Cherokee Indians between 1794 and 1841 (bulk 1814-1841). This extensive collection co…
Samuel Austin Worcester letter to William Buell Sprague, 1840
Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859View Full Item in Newberry LibraryD. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, correspondence cancelling John Ross as Chief of Cherokee Affairs, 1865
Ross, John, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Harlan, MajorView Full Item in Newberry LibraryPart of Thomas Lee Ballenger papers, Cherokee Documents, 1730-1939. Collection contains original documents and some copies that describe the Cherokee Indian's political, historical, and cultural quest…