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Old Baptist Mission and Evan Jones

Description: Article describes the work of Evan Jones at Old Baptist Mission in Oklahoma. Evan Jones was a minister to the Cherokees who opposed Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy as well as slavery, and whose translation work led to books of the bible and his own newspaper being printed in a written version of the Cherokee language.
Date: Summer 1989
Creator: Mahnken, Norbert R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1433.0200]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The little concreteblock grocery store is deep in the wooded hills of southern Adair County, at the corner of U.S. 59 and a gully-washed, rock-strewn trail that masquerades as a county road."
Date: 1983
Creator: Copeland, Carrol
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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