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Cornstalk the Shawnee

Description: Article details how Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnee tribe lead multiple rebellions against the United States as a sign of protest for how his people were treated.
Date: Spring 1931
Creator: Morrison, W. B.
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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

The Shawnee Friends Mission

Description: Article briefly details the establishment and progress of the Shawnee Friends Mission. The mission school was established by the Society of Friends two miles south of the City of Shawnee.
Date: Winter 1924
Creator: Thompson, S. Carrie
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Sacred Heart Mission and Abbey

Description: Article chronicles how Bishop Isidore Robot established the Sacred Hear Mission, a Catholic mission located within Louisiana Territory, and its impact on the Pottawatomie and Shawnee tribes.
Date: Summer 1927
Creator: Laracy, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 30, Number 4, Winter 1952-53

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 30, Number 4, Winter 1952-53. It includes documents about Oklahoma's "Hall of Fame" at the Oklahoma Historical Society, photostats collected by Dr. Grant Foreman and donated to the OHS, an exhibit of Crisler paintings, banking exhibits, and the publication of a paper about Wichita kinship.
Date: Winter 1952
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975 & Kelley, E. H.
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Memoirs of a Pioneer Teacher

Description: Article describes the life and memories of Harriet Patrick Gilstrap, a pioneer teacher who provides a personal narrative here of her time teaching on the frontier and working with the Sac and Fox Agency.
Date: Spring 1960
Creator: Gilstrap, Harriet Patrick
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Shawnee Indian Festival: The Bread Dance

Description: Article describes the Bread Dance ceremony of a group of Shawnees called the "Loyal Shawnees" who allied with the federal army during the Civil War. Velma Nieberding provides context to the history of this group before including a more detailed excerpt of a booklet about the ceremony.
Date: Autumn 1964
Creator: Nieberding, Velma
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Thomas Wildcat Alford

Description: Article details the life of Thomas Wildcat Alford as a leader of his people, the Absentee Shawnee tribe, describing the difficulties he faced progressing the land allotment and assimilation process of his people while he also trying to preserve the traditional culture and ways of life he grew up with.
Date: Summer 2017
Creator: Kyes, Rebecca A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Mary Bourbonnais Organized a Sunday School

Description: Article explores the story of Mary Bourbonnais, a member of the Citizen Band of Potawatomis who came to Indian Territory. Florence Drake includes a letter by Mary herself recollecting her time as superintendent of a Sunday school, and her own spiritual journey.
Date: Winter 1962
Creator: Drake, Florence
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Missions of the Society of Friends Among the Indian Tribes of the Sac and Fox Agency

Description: Article describes the missions established by the Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends, among the Sac & Fox, Shawnee, Iowa, and Kickapoo tribes. Hobert D. Ragland describes which missionaries worked with which missions, and what kind of educational opportunities they provided.
Date: Summer 1955
Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Artist Möllhausen in Oklahoma--1853

Description: Article provides an introduction to the traveling artist Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen before providing an excerpt of the journal he kept while accompanying Lieutenant A. W. Whipple on the Pacific Railroad Survey of Oklahoma in 1853. The journal includes depiction of the land they traveled and the people they encountered.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975 & Shirk, George H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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