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Ferdinandina: First White Settlement in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the establishment of the historical trading post "Ferdinandina" by French explorers and the American Indian groups who settled in the same area through exploration of accounts made by Claude du Tisné and Bénard de la Harpe. Leslie A. McRill compares these accounts to the excavation of village sites by Dr. Joseph B. Thoburn.
Date: Summer 1963
Creator: McRill, Leslie A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

An Indian Territory United Nations: The Creek Council of 1845

Description: Article discusses the meetings of delegates from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Caddo, Wichita, Quapaw, Osage, Kiowa, and Pawnee tribes in council to discuss the issues of Indian Territory in the nineteenth century. A. M. Gibson includes a record of the proceedings by Cherokee Agent Pierce M. Butler and edited by newspaper editor William P. Ross.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

On the Wichita-Caddo Range

Description: Article tells the story of Big Jim Walker and his nephew, Hank. Big Jim was a rancher who grazed his cattle on the Wichita-Caddo reservation before it was open for settlement.
Date: Summer 1964
Creator: Poteet, Chrystabel Berrong
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jose Maria: Anadarko Chief

Description: Article describes the life of José Maria, a chief of the Anadarkos. Kenneth F. Neighbours discusses the life of the Anadarkos in Texas, relations with the United States government, and warfare with other tribes.
Date: Autumn 1966
Creator: Neighbours, Kenneth F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Into the Light: Origins of the Hasinai People

Description: Article includes an excerpt from Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy, a work by Vynola Beaver Newkumet and Howard Meredith, and describes the expression of the story of Caddo, or Hasinai, origins through the traditional Drum Dance.
Date: Autumn 1988
Creator: Tolman, Keith
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Caddo Indian Dancing Scene

Description: Group photograph depicting a group of Caddo people dressed in their finest clothes for dancing. There is a large crack running through the plate and a missing piece on the lower left.
Date: [1889..1891]
Creator: William J. Lenny and William J. Sawyers
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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