Cherokee National Holiday, Tahlequah, Okla., September 1960 [Stand Watie monument] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1960.

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Cherokee National Holiday, Tahlequah, Okla., September 1960 [Stand Watie monument] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1960.

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Negative taken for September 8, 1960, Arkansas Gazette article "Cherokees Mark Holiday at End of Trail of Tears," B1:2. The Cherokee National Holiday has been held at Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, since 1953. The celebration commemorates the founding of the Cherokee Nation on September 6, 1839, when several factions of Cherokees made peace with one another and drew up a constitution. A monument to General Stand Watie, the only Cherokee General in the Confederate Army, is located in the town square of Tahlequah.

1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

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Deane, Ernie

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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...

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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 ...