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Title
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Nations Colliding
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Description
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Article that traces the relationship between the "Five Civilized Tribes" (Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Tribal leaders attempted to use the war as an opportunity to solidify the status of their respective groups as independent nations by aligning with the South. However varying ideas on race and slavery caused divisions within the tribes and "the American Civil War, initially a conflict between two American factions fighting to settle their differing views of nation, thereby became an Indian Civil War that did the same thing."
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Date
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2013-09
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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The U.S. Army, Indian Agency, and the Path to Assimilation
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Description
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Article on the First Indian Home Guards, a Civil War Union army unit from Kansas consisting of refugee Creeks, Cherokees, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws from Indian Territory. Mustered in May 1862 out of the Union�??s desperate need for manpower, the unit clashed with Confederate troops and supporters in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Though they were overseen by white officers, the Native American troops modified military life and practices to fit their needs and culture. The author argues the Home Guard was the last instance in which Native Americans were able to exert some form of autonomy in cooperation with the American military.
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Date
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2013
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Cherokee Thanksgiving
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Description
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Article tracing Nathan Boone's role in mediating a conflict between two factions of the Cherokee Nation and preventing a civil war. Son of frontiersman Daniel Boone, Nathan Boone was the captain of the First Dragoon Regiment assigned to investigating and curtailing the violence between the followers of the Treaty Faction and those of Principal Chief John Ross that began in 1843 and was finally resolved in 1846. The article includes an overview of events, the factions involved, and changes in U.S. policy towards the Cherokee Nation.
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Date
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2014-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Choosing Sides: American Indians Square off in Southwest Missouri
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Description
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A look at Indian involvement in Civil War battles in Missouri which "holds the distinction of having been the stage for the only conflict of the war, the First Battle of Newtonia, in which American Indian units of regimental strength faced each other in combat." The battle took place September 30, 1862. Most Indian involvement with the Civil War though, occurred in Indian Territory. Stand Watie, a slave-holding Indian, lead a group of mixed-race Cherokees and was the only American Indian of the Civil War to attain the rank of general. Watie and some of his men fought also at the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861. Includes a picture of Cherokee Chief John Ross who led the pure-blood Cherokees and advocated neutrality when the war broke out; Stan Watie; and Arkansas lawyer Albert Pike who "was sent into Indian Territory to recruit American Indian tribes for the Southern cause."
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Date
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2008-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Trail of Tears: Retracing the Footsteps
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Description
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Part one of a series of articles from the journal of a ''modern-day traveler on Missouri's portion of the route by which the Cherokees were relocated from the East.'' Includes a timeline of dates and actions prior to the Trail of Tears.
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Date
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2005-08-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Field Notes of the Survey of the Cherokee Lands
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Description
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The second item on this roll of microfilm is the "Field Notes of the Survey of the Cherokee Lands, surveyed in 1836-7 by John C. McCoy." This item contains 43 handwritten pages and is signed by John C. McCoy, September 20, 1837. It contains mention of the "meanders of Neosho River" and of the "Osage Lands."
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Date
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1836/1837
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Object Type
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Archival Material
