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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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makinggovernments and creating judiciaries, He never contemplated theDawes Commission. If He had, He would have shrunk withhorror, quit His job and left the world in chaos. During the month of June, 1897, the Dawes Commission visitedFort Gibson for the purpose of persuading the Cherokees to con-sent to an agreement providing for the division or allotment oftheir lands among the members of their tribe, but so much opposi-tion to the proposition was manifested, principally among thefull-blood element, that nothing was accomplished at that time. The Muskogee Phoenix, on June 17, 1897, had this editorial onthe situation: Affairs are getting in a desperate condition over in the Cher-okee Nation. The full-blood element is wrought up to a high pitchover the pending negotiations with the Dawes Commission andgrave trouble isapprehended should the Cherokee Commissionenter into an agreement with the United States representatives.The full-bloods have united, burying all past differences and have
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 145 organized themselves almost as a unit in opposition to any kindof a treaty, and rumor has it that they have marked out no lessthan forty of the progressive citizens who are urging the treatyand given them an intimation that their lives will pay the forfeitfor disrupting tribal autonomy. A rumor of so serious a natureas this would be given little credence were it not for the suspiciousactions and open threats made by certain of the influential full-bloods to various members of the Cherokee Commission. Thoseconversant with exact conditions of affairs in the Cherokee Nationdo not hesitate in admitting that in the event of an agreement,breaking up tribal autonomy, there will in all probability beassassinations and bloodshed and riots far-reaching and disastrousin their effects. A Vinita paper commented upon the situation as follows: the system condemns itself The negotiations with the Dawes Commission have demon-strated beyond the possibility of doub

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