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Comment by Mary Shawnee on August 25, 2009 at 10:20am

Hello everyone! My name is Mary Shawnee and I am researching my husband's side of the family, George and Nancy Washington. George (aka Neetamooqua) died in 1892 on the family homestead near Fairland, Oklahoma, and is buried in the Washington Family Cemetery. I have photos of this cemetery if anyone is interested. His daughter Julia married John Charles Shawnee. After his death in 1881, she married William Hall. Julia died in 1942 in Ramona, Oklahoma. I have learned from the Indian Pioneer Papers that George Washington owned and operated a hotel near Fort Leavenworth "My father’s hotel was where the hack started from on it’s trip to Fort Gibson." (from the Cyrus Washington interview, Indian Pioneer Papers). I would love any information anyone might have on this hotel-tavern. This would have been mid 1840's -1850's. When George Washington accompanied Cl. Fremont on his 1853 expedition, Nancy Washington ran the hotel and made enough money to add a second floor. Julia (Washington) Hall's Indian Pioneer Papers interview says the hotel was later used for the County Poor House. I've googled til my google finger is raw, but can't find anything concrete on this building. Any ideas?

Comment by jammie barker on August 21, 2009 at 7:14pm

Robin first you get all the information from your son's grandmother that you can. her parents siblings where she grew up etc. then start online if you can or go to the nearest libary and look up on census or for indians the dawles list

Comment by Robin R. Cordell-Inge on August 21, 2009 at 11:17am

OK! I dont even know where to start. However, my son's grandmother has so wanted to show the indian line in her family. Please someone direct me in the correct direction of getting started, where, how, what?

Comment by Linda Lou Eldridge Westbrook on August 19, 2009 at 10:48pm

Hello! o si yo (I just started learning Cherokee.) My Choctaw Grandfather, James Harvey COCHNAUER, attended an Indian School, as did my Cherokee biological father, Woodrow Wilson ELDRIDGE. I was told that I have three ELdridge half-brothers, but they may not know about me, or want to be in contact. I would be happy to find any information for either side of my Native American family. Thank you!

Comment by Sue Tolbert on August 19, 2009 at 8:42pm

A big Oklahoma welcome to all of you new members! Please be sure to post questions and comments and add your thoughts to the discussions as well.

When asking for help be sure to give enough information....the who, what , when, and where will help you get an answer faster!

Comment by jammie barker on August 10, 2009 at 9:50pm

My family is from Spiro and Leflore county. We also have some in Farris in Atoka. We are looking for Whittikers, Baileys, Burchfeilds, Stiles

Comment by Linda Cardenas on August 10, 2009 at 4:59am

My grandmother was born in Stringtown, Choctaw Nation, IT, in 1875. Are there records for that far back?

Comment by Donna Dreyer on August 9, 2009 at 6:28pm

The organic act was passe and became a law May 2, giving the land an organized form of territorial government. Territorial government established - capital at Guthrie. The population of the Indian Territory as reported by the federal census was 179,321, of which number 50,616 were Indians.

Comment by Donna Dreyer on August 9, 2009 at 6:21pm

I don't know about the Dawe's Commission recording school cenus butI do know several counties died school census in theearly days.

Once the lands were open for white settlement, one of the first things the settlers did was start a school. Most, if not all of the schools were established before statehood which.

Timeline of the land being settled by land runs, lotteries, allotments and seald bids
On April 22, 1889, the Unassigned Lands, a 2,000,000 acre tract of land in the center of Indian Territory, were opened by Run. Over 50,000 settlers rushed to claim about 10,000 claims of 160 acres each. Nearly 1,000 Blacks, mostly from the South, participated in the run. Many obtained homesteads, with most settling east of Guthrie. Langston became an all Black town.

On Sept. 22, 1891, part of the state, mostly in central Oklahoma, was opened for land run and allotments. This was the Iowa, Potawatomie-Shawnee, Tonkawa, and Sac-Fox lands. This allowed for settlement of the surplus lands of these areas.

In 1892, Pawnee lands were opened by allotment.

April 19, 1892, Cheyenne and Arapaho lands opened by Run. About 25,000 people raced for homesteads in the surplus lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

The Cherokee Outlet opened by Run on Sept. 16, 1893. Over 100,000 folks made the run, being the largest in history. This is the run depicted in the movies and what most people think of when "Oklahoma Land Runs" are mentioned. This run did not include the area in Kansas known as the "Cherokee Strip".

Kickapoo lands opened by Run May 23, 1895.

Wichita-Caddo and Comanche-Kiowa-Apache surplus lands by Lottery June 9 to August 6, 1901, with about 165,000 potential homesteaders registered. A drawing was held for 15,000 homesteads. Some of the Kiowa-Comanche land were not available for settlement. These included 56,000 acres for Fort Sill Military Reservation, 58,000 acres for the Wichita Mountain Forest Reserve, 480,000 acres for the Big Pasture reserve (reserved as a grazing tract for the Kiowas and Comanches).

Ponca, Kaw and Oto-Missouri reservations by Allotment in 1904. Federal Officials sold 51,000 acres of surpluss lands after the allotments were made.

In 1906, Osage Reservation Lands opened by Allotment.

Big Pasture Lands opened by auction with sealed bids in December 1906

Comment by Sue Tolbert on August 9, 2009 at 4:48pm

Sherry, I'm not sure where you got this information. Prior to statehood Indian Territory did not have schools for whites. The Dawes Commission did set aside land for schools during the allotment process.

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