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Description (dc): The Samuel Checote Collection includes typescripts of Checote's messages in his role as the first principal chief of the Creek Nation under the Muskogee Constitution of 1867 to the House of Kings and Warriors; newspaper editorials on Checote and George W. Grayson from the Vindicator and the Cherokee Advocate, as well as a biographical sketch of Checote.
Collection Title: Samuel Checote

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: The Vindicator--July 3, 1875. Editorial on G.W. Grayson.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,24; Oracle ID: 656

: Record Book of Chief Samuel Checote in Early Sixties (sic). Includes general laws of the Creek Nation enacted and resolutions made during the early 1860s. Also included are miscellaneous documents to 1874, and a letter apparently in Creek written in 1890.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,179; Oracle ID: 663

: October 19, 1880. Samuel Checote to the Houses of the Kings and Warriors, re: the return without approval a bill granting C.W. Turner permission to hold and graze cattle in the Creek Nation.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,28; Oracle ID: 666

: October 30, 1882. Message of Samuel Checote to the members of the National Council.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,94; Oracle ID: 660

: September 1, 1864. Samuel Checote et al to General D.H. Cooper requesting that Samuel Checote be placed in command of one of the brigades forming the Indian Division.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,52; Oracle ID: 665

: 1899. Samuel Checote (sic), a chapter from A Brief History of the Missionary Work in Indian Territory by F.M. Moore.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,74; Oracle ID: 671

: Oklahoma War Chief--July 15, 1886. How to become a Squaw Man. The marriage permit cited was signed by Chief Checote.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,56; Oracle ID: 670

: Indian Champion--September 13, 1884. Death of Samuel Checote.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,30; Oracle ID: 669

: Cherokee Advocate--March 23, 1883. Editorial on Letter of Checote (sic) to D.W. Bushyhead.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,33; Oracle ID: 661

: 1926. Principal Chief Samuel Checote, taken from page 876 of Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People by J.B. Thoburn and M.H. Wright. All four volumes can be found in the Western History Library under the call number F 694.T45. Other sets can be f; CONTENTdm ID: checote,66; Oracle ID: 673

: Cherokee Advocate--June 18, 1870. A letter from an attendee of the Grand Council, re: the object and proceedings of the council.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,62; Oracle ID: 654

: May 24, 1884. Samuel Checote to J.M. Perryman.; CONTENTdm ID: checote,48; Oracle ID: 668

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