Old Baptist Mission and Evan Jones
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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.
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Oklahoma Historical Society