Indians of North America -- Claims
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
J. L. Hargett collection of Choctaw Nation papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2397
Abstract:
Correspondence, documents, financial papers, printed materials and other papers relating to the Choctaw removal to lands in Indian Territory and claims made by the Choctaw Nation against the United States Government. Correspondence includes letters from David Folsom, Choctaw Chief, to missionaries Cyrus Byington and Cyrus Kingsbury while in Washington negotiating the treaty of 1825. He writes of the deaths of two chiefs on the trip, and of the illness of others who had overindulged in the...
Dates:
1821-1917