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1.         "Personal Reminiscences of the Days of Indian Territory" by Britt Willis.

 

2.         Notebook 1:     pages 1-111.

 

3.         Notebook 1:     pages 112-198.

 

4.         Notebook 2:     pages 1-124.

 

5.         Notebook 2:     pages 125-234.

 

 

Notebook 1:

 

            "The Indians' Twenty Third Psalm"--1.

 

            "The Indian in Political and Civic Life in Oklahoma:--2 to 5.

 

            "The American Indian?? His Response to the Gospel and Society or His Place in American Life"--6 to 15.

 

            "American Indian Day"--16 to 19.

 

            "Sketches of Outstanding Chiefs of the Choctaws"--20 to 29.

 

            "The American Indian with Church and Educational Advantages"--30 to 37.

 

            "One of My Interesting Experiences"--38.

 

            "One of the Historic Trip (sic) of 1927"--39 to 40.

 

            "Four Governors of the Chickasaws with in Thirty Days"--41.

 

            "Wampum"--42 to 43.

 

            "Choctaws"--44 to 51.

 

            "Cherokee Tribal Legends"--52 to 53.

 

            "The Indians' Twenty Third Psalm"--54.

 

            "The Sacred Fire Dance of the Navajo"--55 to 57.

 

            "Story of the Green Corn Dance"--58 to 60.

 

            "The Red Man"--61 to 65.

 

            "Letters written to my daughter Lottie when Away"--66 to 67.

 

            "Peter P. Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws"--68 to 69.

 

            "Reverend Israel Folsom"--70.

 

            Part of a letter from Ms. Conlan to her daughter--71.

 

            "People of Indian Blood Who Are or Have Done Things"--72.

 

            Letters to Lottie--73 to 84.

 

            "Indian Welfare"--85 to 86.

 

            "The American Indian with Church and Educational Advantages"--87 to 93.

 

            "Cherokee Clans"--94.

 

            "Western Baptist Blanket Indian Association"--95 to 96.

 

            "Greeting from the State Historical Society"--97.

 

            "History of the Green Corn Dance"--98.

 

            "Indian Myths"--99.

 

            "Platt National Park"--100 to 103.

 

            "Letters of Importance to Mr. W.P. Poland of Ardmore"--104 to 106.

 

            "Noted Pipe of Peace"--107 to 111.

 

            "Our Ancestors"--112.

 

            "Nanih-Waya"--113.

 

            "Camp Illinois"--114 to 115.

 

            "Mrs. Czarina Colbert Conlan"--116 to 118.

 

            "A True Chickasaw Story"--119.

 

            "Chief Gilbert Dukes of the Choctaw Nation"--120.

 

            Letter about American Indian Day--121.

 

            "The Chickasaws Had Four Governors With In a Few Weeks" 122.

 

            "Indian Citizenship or Citizen-Wards as Voters"--123 to 124.

 

            "Forts of Oklahoma"--125 to 128.

 

            "Oklahoma Negro Slave Composed Famed 'Swing Low'"--129.

 

            "The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek"--130 to 132.

 

            Second page from the "Swing Low" article--133.

 

            "American Indian Statues"--134 to 143.

 

            "The American Indian?? His Response to the Gospel and Society or His Place in American Life"--144 to 152.

 

            "Old Dwight Mission"--153 to 159.

 

            Address to Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy--160 to 161.

 

            First page of the "Old Dwight Mission" article--162.

 

            "American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions"--163 to 166.

 

            First page of the "Old Dwight Mission" article--167.

 

            "American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions"--168 to 171.

 

            "Forts of Oklahoma"--172 to 181.

 

            "Indian Citizenship or 'Citizen-Wards' as Voters"--182 to 185.

 

            "Kiowa Indian Art"--186 to 190.

 

            "A Wish of a Choctaw"--190A.

 

            "Report of Oklahoma Chairman of Indian Welfare 1932"--191 to 194.

 

            "Indian Education"--195 to 198.

 

Notebook 2:

 

            "Treaty of 1784 with Spain"--1 to 2.

 

            "Origin of the Indian Country"--3 to 4.

 

            "The Choctaws and Chickasaws"--5 to 34.

 

            "Regarding Choctaws and Chickasaws in the state of Oklahoma"--35.

 

            "Notes on the Choctaws and Apushmataha"--36 to 51.

 

            "Article on Apushmataha"--52 to 53.

 

            "Peter Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws"--54 to 65.

 

            "The Migration of the Choctaws"--66.

 

            "A Cheyenne Indian Story"--67.

 

            "Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Alfred Wright"--68.

 

            "Museum Department of the State Historical Society"--69.

 

            Miscellaneous notes--70.

 

            "Governors of the Chickasaws"--71.

 

            "Chiefs of the Choctaws"--72.

 

            "Treaty of 1855"--73.

 

            "Notes on the Indian Race"--74 to 75.

 

            "A Choctaw Woman Who Believes in Raising Better Chickens"--76.

 

            "Experiences in Collecting Historical Material"--77 to 78.

 

            "A Trip to Caddo County in September 1920:  'Red Rock'"--79 to 82.

 

            "Creeks"--83 to 85.

 

            "Seminole Indians"--86.

 

            "The Report of the 25th Annual Convention of the U.D.C. (United Daughters of the Confederacy) at Louisville, KY"--87 to 90.

 

            "Report of Czarina C. Conlan, Given to State Historical Society"--91 to 93.

 

            "Annual Report of Czarina C. Conlan"--94 to 96.

 

            "A True Cheyenne Story"--97.

 

            "Annual Report of Czarina C. Conlan"--98 to 101.

 

            "Fourth Annual Report of Czarina C. Conlan"--102 to 105.

 

            "Report of Czarina C. Conlan to the Historical Society"--106 to 109.

 

            "Reverend Charles Journeycake, Last Chief of the Delawares"--110.

 

            "Talk given at Hugo, Dec. 18th, 1919, before a Choctaw Meeting"--111 to 112.

 

            "Talk on Shakespeare Given Before the Lindsay Club"--113 to 115.

 

            "First Talk Given in the Room for Daughters and Veterans (of the Confederacy)"--116.

 

            "Choctaw and Chickasaw Constitutions"--117 to 118.

 

            "Notes on the Choctaws and Chickasaws"--119.

 

            "Levy Colbert"--120 to 121.

 

            "Evidence of a Brave Indian"--122.

 

            "Religious Life of Some of the Colberts"--123 to 124.

 

            "Wheelock Church"--125 to 126.

 

            "An Epoch in the Life of Chief John Ross"--127.

 

            "Ida McCurtain Moore's Story of Real Life"--128.

 

            "Venice, the Queen City of the Adriatic Sea"--129 to 130.

 

            "Our First Visit at Gibraltar and Naples"--131 to 132.

 

            "Paper on Paris, Read Before the Pioneer Club in Atoka"--133 to 135.

 

            Miscellaneous--136.

 

            "A Flag of 1812"--137.

 

            Miscellaneous--138 to 139.

 

            "Song of the Choctaw Girl"--140.

 

            "Notes from the American Historical Association"--141 to 142.

 

            "Article Written for the Oklahoma School Journal"--143 to 144.

 

            "The Romance of John Howard Payne, and the Cherokee Indian Girl"--148 to 149.

 

            "A Choctaw Indian Boy Bear Story Which is True"--150.

 

            "The Value of an Historical Collection"--151 to 153.

 

            "Two Important Historical Days"--154.

 

            "Importance of an Historical Collection"--155.

 

            "Lone Wolf, Chief of the Kiowas, in Washington"--156 to 157.

 

            "Short Plains Indian Stories that are Facts"--158.

 

            "An Indian's Loyalty to His Own State Museum"--159 to 162.

 

            "Plains Indians Sweat House (Cheyenne)--163.

 

            "Easter Monday Among the Cheyenne Indians"--164 to 165.

 

            "The Significance of Indian Legends"--166/

 

            "Legend of the Chickasaws and Choctaws"--167 to 168.

 

            "Short Facts Dotted Down as They Came in Mind"--169.

 

            "Legend of Man's Acquisition of Corn (a Seneca legend)--170 to 171.

 

            "Sketch of the Life of Coleman Cole, Principal Chief of the Choctaws"--172.

 

            Various legends--173 to 174.

 

            "Historic Spots of Oklahoma"--175.

 

            "An Indian Bullfrog Story"--176.

 

            "A Choctaw to a Cayote (sic)"--177.

 

            "Zitkala-Noni ('lost bird' in Sioux)"--178.

 

            Talk given at Mrs. Alice B. Davis' swearing in as Chief of the Seminoles.  August 16, 1922.

 

            Talk given at the American Indian Day Banquet--180.

 

            "Oklahoma Day, November 16th, 1907"--181 to 182.

 

            "Otis W. Leader"--183.

 

            "An Indian Who was the Second Greatest World War Hero"--184 to 186.

 

            "An After Noon with the Sac and Fox Indians"--187.

 

            Speech of Colonel David Folsom at the Choctaw Council, September 19, 1829--188.

 

            "The Red Man"--189 to 196.

 

            "Trip to Pawhuska, September 15th, 16th, 1922"--197 to 198.

 

            Interview with Mrs. Narcissa Owen, mother of Senator R.L. Owen--199.

 

            "The Star Maiden"--200.

 

            "Naming of the Kiamichi River"--201.

 

            "An Afternoon with the Sac and Fox Indians"--202.

 

            "Lone Wolf's Part in the Burial of the Unknown Soldier"--203 to 204.

 

            "Tribute to Confederate Soldiers"--205 to 206.

 

            "A Visit at the Home of Mrs. Henry B. Page"--207 to 208.

 

            "The Home of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma"--209.

 

            "America's First Indian Woman Chief of Her Tribe"--210.

 

            "Decorations of Simpsons Auditorium and Social Features of the Biennial in Los Angeles"--211 to 212.

 

            "Indian Flute"--213.

 

            "Cherokee Clans"--214.

 

            "The Plains Indians Western Baptist Association, August 9th to 11th, 1933"--215.

 

            "One Day's Experience From My Notebook.  March 4th, 1924"--216.

 

            Second page of the Western Baptist Association article--217.

 

            Proclamation of Governor J.B.A. Robertson concerning American Indian Day--218.

 

            "Pryor, Oklahoma, July 15th, 1922"--219.

 

            Letters to Lottie--220 to 223.

 

            "The Value of Our Historical Department"--224.

 

            "Will of Israel Folsom"--225 to 228.

 

            "Indian Heroins (sic)"--229 to 233.

 

            "The Indian's Twenty Third Psalm"--234.

           

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