- General Note:
-
Given in Honor of Martha Simmons by Elizabeth Ann Simmons
Originally published: Oklahoma City : Warden, 1921.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Origin, religion, characteristics -- Trouble with the Chickamaugau, attack at Knoxville, Mussel Shoals massacre, removal to Arkansas, first printed laws -- Convention of delegates, constitution adopted -- Proclamation of May 28, 1828 -- Treaty with the Cherokees, 1835 -- The emigration from Georgia, cost detachment, resolutions of protest, political differences, civil war averted -- Act of union between the Eastern and Western Cherokees -- Treaty with the Cherokees, 1846. Schools established. Old settler payments. Keetoowah Society organized. Organization of military companies. Cherokees enter the Civil War. General Waite surrenders -- Treaty with the Cherokees, 1866. Delawares acquire full rights. Shawnees adopted by Cherokees. Land sold to Osages. Officers' salaries fixed. Land donated to Masons. Lodges -- The Texas Cherokees 1820-30. Grant from Mexico. Grant from Texas. Treaties. Expulsion -- Public school system established. National officials. Male and female seminary. Graduates. Eleemosynary institutions -- Missionary activities, first printing -- Officials of the Cherokee nation, September 9, 1839, to June 30, 1909 -- Old families and their genealogy -- Continuation of old families [five chapters] -- Redbird Smith. The Nighthawk Branch of the Keetoowah Organization. Election of Chief Levi Gritts -- Continuation of old families.
