Full text of "History of the Cherokee Indians and their legends and folk lore"

PREFACE.

This humble effort is attempted for the purpose of perpetuating some of the facts relative to the Cherokee tribe, that might otherwise be lost. The object has been to make it as near a personal history and biography of as many Cherokees as possible.
Without the assistance of the magnanimous, wholesoul membership of the nation, the work would not have been possible and for that reason I wish to thank each and every member, for their hearty collaboration and express my regret that the work has not the merit with which many others might have invested it.

Emmet Starr.

Claremore, Okla.
December 12, 1921.

HON. ROBT. L. OWEN

O. H. P. BREWER

Oliver Hazard Perry Brewer, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Hazard Perry and Delilah (Vann) Brewer, was born in Canadian District on March 15, 1871. A member of the senior class at the Male Seminary he was expelled about a couple of months before graduation day for condemning the action of the principal of that school in unmercifully beating one of the smaller boys. Brewer then attended Arkansas University and graduated on December 6, 1803. He was elected Senator from Canadian District on August 5, 1901. Elected a member of the Cherokee National School Board and chosen as its president in November, 1903. A democrat, he was elected delegate to the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention from District Number Seventy-seven on November 6, 1906. Appointed postmaster of Muskogee in 1917.

D. M. FAULKNER

(SEQUOYAH)

Contents
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CHAPTER 1.
Origin, Religion, Characteristics	21
CHAPTER II.
Trouble with the Chickamaugau, Attack at Knoxville, Mussel Shoals Massacre, Removal to Arkansas, First Printed Laws	35
CHAPTER III.
Convention of Delegates, Constitution Adopted	55
CHAPTER IV.
Proclamation of May 28, 1828	67
CHAPTER V.
Treaty with the Cherokees, 1835	85
CHAPTER VI.
The Emigration from Georgia, Cost Detachment, Resolutions of Protest, Political Differences, Civil War Averted	103
CHAPTER VII.
Act of Union Between the Eastern and Western Cherokees	121
CHAPTER VIII.
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	137
CHAPTER IX.
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	167
CHAPTER X.
The Texas Cherokees 1820-30, Grant from Mexico, Grant from Texas, Treaties, Expulsion	187
CHAPTER XI
Public School System Established, National Officials, Male and Female Seminary. Graduates, Eleemosynary Institutions	225
CHAPTER XII.
Missionary Activities, First Printing	247
CHAPTER XIII.
Officers of the Cherokee Nation, September 9, 1839, to June 30, 1908	261
CHAPTER XIV.
Old Families and Their Genealogy	303
CHAPTER XV.
Continuation of Old Families	335
CHAPTER XVI.
Continuation of Old Families	363
CHAPTER XVII.
Continuation of Old Families	374
CHAPTER XVIII.
Continuation of Old Families	399
CHAPTER XIX.
Continuation of Old Families	419
CHAPTER XXI.
Redbird Smith, The Nighthawk Branch of the Keetoowah Organization, Election of Chief Levi Gritts	477
CHAPTER XXI - Part 1 CHAPTER XXI - Part 2
Continuation of Old Families	543

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