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1825/08
Contemporary copy of Treaty of Prairie Du Chien (WI) [Schoolcraft copy]
Copy of Henry R. Schoolcraft, the 19th century scholar and ethnologist of Native Americans. Tied with green ribbon
GLC07391
1861
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891
Treaty with [the Confederacy and] Cherokee
Co-authored by John Ross. Treaty signed 7 October.
GLC07393
1866
Communication of the Delegation of the Cherokee Nation to the President...
Correspondence between John Ross, Principal Chief, and certain officers of the Rebellious States: Defending Cherokee Treaty with Confederacy; the Cherokee Constitution allowing for slavery and segregation of blacks.
GLC07384.06
1860/10/04
Ross, John, 1790-1866
Message of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the National Council
Delivered October 4, 1860. Uncut.
GLC07384.04
1883/11/07
Bushyhead, Dennis W., 1826-1898
First Annual Message (second term)
Speech delivered at Talequah by principal chief of Cherokee Nation.
GLC07384.05
1862/03/20
to John Ross re: requesting necessary papers to capture fugitive slave
The slave was wanted for the crime of horse stealing.
GLC07385.01
1862/02/20
Rector, H.M., fl. 1862
calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike
"Jack a negro man...charged with horse stealing...has fled". (Extradition request?)
GLC07385.02
14 December 1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Authority to affix the seal of the Unites States to a treaty with the Tabeguache Band of Ute Indians]
Partially printed authority for a treaty concluded on 7 October 1863.
GLC07394
17 January 1865
[Authority to affix the seal to treaty with Northwestern Shoshonee Indians].
Lincoln authorizes a treaty with the Northwestern Bands of Shoshonee Indians dated July 30, 1863. The treaty was made at Box Elder, Utah Territory. Brigadier General P. Edward Connor, commander of the military district of Utah, and Commissioner James...
GLC07395
1870
Treaties between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation, from 1785
Was written while it was Cherokee Nation Territory.
GLC07396
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