Sunday, May 1, 2016

In The Press: Loans to Creek Freedmen Farmers

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Ad from Muskogee Cimeter, September 22, 1904, page 4 Original image from Oklahoma Historical Society. Link from Library of Congress, Chr...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Estate Record in Cherokee Nation Bequeathing Slaves

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Estate record of John Sanders, of Cherokee Nation, 17 April, 1847 OHS Microfilm: CHN 38   Digitized by Ancestry - Original Title: Old M...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

African American Families from the Mississippi Choctaw Files

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National Archives Publication M1186, Enrollment Cards Mississippi Choctaw Rejected MCR 1112 Color Image Source:  Ancestry.com.  Oklahoma ...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

In the Press: Creek Freedmen in the Dawes Era

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(This is part of a series of articles that I shall devote on this blog, to Indian Territory Freedmen. Many newspapers throughout the region...
Monday, January 25, 2016

In Search of Diana Fletcher

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Courtesy of University of Oklahoma, Western History Collection We have all seen her image, a dark skinned woman in Kiowa attire. She is ...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Historical Society Partnership Brings Forth New Records

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Databases on Ancestry For Oklahoma & Indian Territory Research In the fall of 2014 a special partnership between the Oklahoma Histor...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Creek Freedmen Reflected on "Omitted Rolls"

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In 1989, the Federal Records Center in Ft. Worth Texas microfilmed some of the Creek Records recorded in the early 1890s, and among...