Tag: Chronicles of Oklahoma

  • Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…

  • An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any…

  • A Vanishing Race Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 4, Number 1 (June, 1926) pages 100-115 G. A. Crossett, Editor Caddo Herald One of the largest and most intelligent tribes of original American Indians in the United States today is the Choctaws, who inhabit the southeastern portion of Oklahoma. The Choctaws formerly occupied the central and northern…

  • The Mayes Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 15, Number 1 (March, 1937) pages 56-65 John Bartlett Meserve The saga of the Cherokees, from the dawn of their arrival in the old Indian Territory down to the present, is emphatically one of constant change in their social, economic, and political lives. The influence of the adventurous white…