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Address of Judge C. Ross Hume

Description: Article is an address given by Judge C. Ross Hume to dedicate the landmark where the Five Civilized Tribes agreed to form an Indian Confederacy of the Plains.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Lewis, Anna & Hume, C. Ross
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Camp Napoleon

Description: Article chronicles the events that surrounded Camp Napoleon, a meeting of the Five Civilized Tribes with other Indigenous tribes to form a confederation of protection at the end of the Civil War against aggressions from the Union and the Confederacy.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Lewis, Anna
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Chief Opothleyahola

Description: Article documents Chief Opothleyahola's efforts to oppose the selling of Creek lands to the United States federal government.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Choctaw Academy

Description: Article is a continuation of the author's attempts to document the establishment and history of the Choctaw Academy, a mission school dedicated to the education of American Indian youths.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Editorial: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 9, Number 4, December 1931

Description: Article consists of editorials written by staff members at the Chronicles. It includes an announcement regarding a previous issue of the magazine, a note on the installation of new bookstacks at the historical society, and a note on the society's work with historical newspapers.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Peery, Dan W. & Campbell, Harry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Great Lottery

Description: Article chronicles the opening of land for settlement within the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache reservations through a land lottery.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Estill, A. Emma
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, December 1931

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Robert J. Ray, A. J. Titus, James P. Renfrew, Harry Mayo Dunlap, Charles Henry Bower, Eugene B. Lawson, George A. Fooshee, Andrew Louis Hausam, George A. Trice, and Mrs. Rebecca Harris Colbert.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Conlan, Czarina; D.N.D.; Glass, J. Wood; Muldrow, Edna & Pike, Albert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, December 1931

Description: Notes and Documents column including a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma Historical Society's constitution and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the historical society's Board of Directors held on October 29, 1931.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet: Continued

Description: Article continues narrating the events that transpired during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet for settling while also detailing the processes for acquiring land within the region.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Milam, Joe B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Report of Cherokee Deputation into Florida

Description: Article reports on the condition of the Seminole tribe after a seven-year long war against the federal government as a result of their attempted removal from Florida into Indian Territory. The report was written by Chief John Ross of the Cherokee tribe who served as a mediator between the two.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Ross, John & Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Swanson County

Description: Article details the legislative actions taken to create Swanson county, the 77th county created within Oklahoma, and the numerous politicians appointed and elected to its governing body.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Smith, Emily B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ahpeahtone, Kiowa - A Bit of History

Description: Article details a trip undertaken by the last chief of the Kiowa tribe, Ahpeahtone, to locate a self-proclaimed prophet during the "Messiah Craze." This prophet spoke of the return to the old times of buffalo and peace.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Methvin, J. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The California Overland Mail Route Through Oklahoma

Description: Article details the establishing of a mail route through Oklahoma and Indian Territories during their frontier era. These routes provided mailing services from Texas to California. A first person narrative is given of someone who traveled down one of these routes.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Cherokee War Path with Annotations

Description: Article narrates the events surrounding numerous battles fought between the Cherokee and Creek tribes as they moved across the American west. This narrative is told from the perspective of John Ridge, son of Major Ridge, a Cherokee representative who was killed alongside two other men for signing treaties pertaining to the tribe's removal.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967 & Ridge, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Chief Pleasant Porter

Description: Article details the life of the Principal Chief of the Creek Nation, Pleasant Porter, and his father, John Snodgrass Porter, as the family was adopted into the tribe and worked for the community.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A College Tour to Points of Historic Interest

Description: Article details the historic monuments students of the Northeastern State Teachers College visited during their field trip around Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Ballenger, T. L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Editorials: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 9, Number 3, September 1931

Description: Article consists of editorials written by editors at The Chronicles. It includes an announcement regarding the distribution of the magazine to public schools, an announcement regarding relocating the annual meeting of the society to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a note regarding the publication of a map of the Cherokee Strip.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Peery, Dan W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, September 1931

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Reverend Theodore Frelinghuysen Brewer, the principal at the Asbury Manual School for Creek Indians; Frank Braden Burford, son the a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Oklahoma; Preeman J. McClure, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention; and James Fountain Robinson, a miner and newspaper publisher.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Brewer, T. H.; Hoffman, Roy & Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, September 1931

Description: Notes and Documents column including the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 23, 1931.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet

Description: Article details how the Cherokee tribe divided their lands and established a prosperous community with other surrounding tribes during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Milam, Joe B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

When Spaniards Settled - 1598

Description: Article details the expeditions and settlement of land west of the Mississippi River by Spanish conquistadores before the United States acquired the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Nesbitt, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Why Educate the Indians?

Description: Article is a speech from the Secretary of War regarding why Indigenous Americans should receive an education. This speech was given at the Commencement Exercises of Bacone College.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Hurley, Patrick J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Constitutional Convention

Description: Article narrates the author's experience as a delegate at the Eufaula Constitutional Convention. This convention was a meeting of leaders from the Five Civilized Tribes to determine how to secure statehood for the Indian Territory as a separate region from Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 1931
Creator: Murray, William H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Cowboy, The Statue

Description: Article describes the lifestyle of a cowboy to show the significance of the cowboy statue placed on the state capitol's lawn.
Date: Summer 1931
Creator: Orner, Frank C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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