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A Terrible Truth: The Tonkawa Massacre of 1862

Description: Article explores the history of the Tonkawa people in Texas and Oklahoma and illuminates the negative impact Union and Confederate forces caused by not honoring their treaty obligations to protect the Tonkawas from the tribes around them, who they were alienated from by allying themselves with the US government.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Connole, Joseph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Plight of the Tonkawas 1875 to 1898

Description: Article describes the plight of the Tonkawa people, who had assisted the U.S. Army but were ill-treated and shuffled around to numerous locations in search of a home. Thomas F. Schilz describes the process of their movement from Fort Griffin in Texas to Indian Territory, and how government officials handled the situation.
Date: Winter 1986
Creator: Schilz, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 1982

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 1982. It includes a recollection of the Constitutional Convention that met in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, by Stuart Bryan, who was appointed a page boy for the meeting. It also includes a document continuing the catalogue of microfilmed publications of the Archives and Manuscripts Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Garrity, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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