Cherokee Indians, Tahlequah, Okla., March 8, 1962 [Stand Watie marker] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

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Cherokee Indians, Tahlequah, Okla., March 8, 1962 [Stand Watie marker] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

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Negative taken for March 15, 1962, Arkansas Gazette article "Rover Visits Tahlequah, Capital of Cherokee Nation," B1:2. The Cherokee National Capitol was established at Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, in 1839. The Cherokee who made up this nation included not only those from the eastern United States on the famous Trail of Tears in 1838, but also Cherokee that had been resettled from Arkansas in 1828. The capital building, a two-story Federal brick structure, was built in 1870 and still exists. On the grounds of the capital is a monument to Stand Watie, the only full-blooded Native American to serve as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.

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Cherokee National Capitol (Tahlequah, Okla.)

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Watie, Stand, 1806-1871

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Stand Watie, also known as Standhope, Oowatie, Degataga, and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee Nation leader and brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He was born into the Cherokee Nation in Calhoun, Georgia, on December 12, 1806, and was educated at a Moravian mission school in Spring Place, Georgia. He briefly wrote for the Cherokee Phoenix, during which time he became involved in anti-Indian laws following the discovery of gold in Georgia in the 1830s. Watie was a signer of the Treaty of Ne...