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The Grand June Council

Description: Article narrates how the American Indian tribes of North America gathered a Grand Conference to establish peaceful relations between them, held in June of 1843.
Date: Winter 1932
Creator: Sigourney, Lydia Huntly
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Aunt Eliza of Tahlequah

Description: Article chronicles the life of Eliza Missouri Bushyhead, a prominent teacher at the Cherokee Female Seminary at Tahlequah. The article compares her life to her father's, Jesse Bushyhead, who was a missionary based in the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Spring 1931
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

UNIDENTIFIED Man on Tractor Rebuilding Contour Ridges and Planting Bermudagrass/Pryor Project

Description: Photograph of W. T. Gooldy using a tractor to rebuild this field's contour ridges and plant Bermudagrass for additional protection. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rebuilding of contour ridges in the fall and covering with Bermuda grass and to protect it from winter freezing on ridges. Rebuilt with tractor and 4-disk one-way. Mr. Gooldy contour ridged 63-acres of pasture lands in spring of 1937. The Pryor CCC Camp sodded these ridges soon after they were built. The Bermuda grass made eno… more
Date: November 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1273.0617]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "They have cut down the historical old postoak tree in the Cherokee square here - the tree that has sheltered so much Cherokee history, and the one about which so many storie3s have been told for century."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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