Killen, Florence Fields, Papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1958-1979)

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Killen, Florence Fields, Papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1958-1979)

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The Florence Fields Killen Papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1958-1979), contain notes, hand-drawn and printed maps, etchings, microfilm of original sources, correspondence, articles by Killen, publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, photocopies and typescripts, and printed material produced during Killen⁰́₉s research on Cherokee Chief Richard Fields, the Fields family genealogy, and the history of Cherokee Indians in Texas.

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Killen, Florence Fields

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Fields, Richard "Dimples", 1941-2000

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Cherokee nation

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Although the Treaty of Hopewell (1785) defined the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation and the U.S., Congress during the Confederation period was unable to keep white squatters off Cherokee lands. With violence escalating between Cherokees and settlers, particularly those of the "State of Franklin" (now Tennessee), Congress in Sept. of 1788 issued a proclamation forbidding white intrustion on Cherokee land. From the description of A talk from the head men warriers of the Cherokey Natio...

Killen, James C., Mrs.

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Florence Fields Killen (1918-1999) was the daughter of John Leslie and Ester Olive (West) Fields and a descendant of Richard Fields, a Cherokee Chief in East Texas. She married James C. Killen (1916-1979), and the couple had a daughter, Kay L. Killen. Although Killen began researching the history of the Fields family and the Cherokees in Texas for a book in the 1950s, her research was interrupted in the 1970s in order to publish her book, History of Lee County (Quanah, T...

Fields family.

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