Back to Choctaw Nation Collections
University
of
Western
History Collections
1. Abstracts
(primarily examinations of abstracts in and around
2. Abstracts
- Law Points (includes letter to the Choctaw people calling for a convention of
Choctaw citizens,
3. Acts
of Congress (includes letter from Wilburn Cartwright), 1935-37
4. Adverse
Possession (brief used in case of Lynch v. Wolf., n.d.)
5. Affidavits,
1915
6. Agency,
1915
7. Appeal
and Error, 1914
8. Atoka
Agreement (discusses the question of whether or not the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Nations under the Atoka Agreement, as amended by the Curtis Act, reserved from
allotment and provided for the leasing of the oil and gas in their tribal
lands), 1927-28
9. Attorneys,
1913
10. Special
Attorneys - Correspondence (includes correspondence with D.C. McCurtain,
William H. Harrison, W.F. Semple, information re. case no. K-187 Choctaw Nation
v.
1. Special
Attorneys, Filing Suits, etc. (includes numerous letters between Tucker and
William H. Harrison), 1926-28
2. Automobiles,
1914
3. Bills
- Indian Affairs (includes correspondence between Tucker and U.S.
Representative, C.D. Carter), 1911-28
4. Bills
and Receipts, 1929-31
5. Campaign,
Speech Data, 1928, 1930
6. Cancellation
of Instruments, n.d.
7. Cattle
Distribution to Indians (includes Choctaw Indian census information for Indians
in and around
8. Chattel
Mortgages, 1915-23
9 Choctaw
Advisory Council Meeting (minutes), 1935
10. Choctaw
Convention (includes correspondence with C.D. Carter, William H. Harrison, W.F.
Semple), 1926
11. Choctaw
Indians - Data for Speech (speech at
12. Choctaws
- Data on Trachoma, etc., 1929
13. Choctaw
Enrollment (list of Choctaws of 3/4ths to 7/8ths blood), n.d.
14. Choctaw
Election (correspondence between Tucker and Ben Dwight), 1934
15. Choctaw
History (news clippings), n.d.
1. Choctaw
Legislation, 1908, 1925
2. Choctaw
Lumber Co., 1926
3. Choctaw
Matters - Current (census info. re. intermarriage of Choctaw citizens), 1921, 1926
4. Choctaw
Nation - Principal Chief (includes correspondence with William H. Harrison,
Charles Burke of the Department of the Interior, Judge D.C. McCurtain, and W.B.
Pine re. Tucker's appointment as Tribal Attorney for the Choctaw Nation and the
case of J.F. McMurray v. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation), 1925-27
5. Choctaw
- New Indian Bill (Howard-Wheeler Bill, "Proceedings of the Conference for
the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma Held at Muskogee, OK, to
Discuss the Wheeler-Howard Indian Bill"), 1934
6. Choctaw
Schools (includes data covering the years 1900-29 re.
7. Choctaw
Tribal Government (essay, four pages), n.d.
8. Christie
Collection Co., 1917-18
9. Coal
and Asphalt Deposits (includes brief on segregated coal, coal analyses, and
correspondence with Department of Interior and Oklahoma Corporation
Commission), 1945
10. Coal
and Asphalt: Correspondence
(includes letters with Principal Chiefs Ben Dwight, W.A. Durant, Governor Floyd
E. Maytubby, Senator Elmer Thomas, also includes list of segregated lots in
11. Coal
and Asphalt Data (correspondence and maps), 1927
12. Coal
Deposits (statistics), 1918, 1927
13. Coal
Deposit - Map of ("Segregated Coal Deposits, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
in
1. Coal
Trustee (Hampton Tucker served several terms as mining trustee for the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Nations in
2. Collateral
Attack, n.d.
3. Contracts,
1911
4. Corporations,
1912-37
File folders 5 and 6
contain the correspondence of W.R. McIntosh who served as mining trustee for
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.
5. Correspondence
- General (W.R. McIntosh), 1912-20
6. Correspondence
- General (W.R. McIntosh), 1916-20
7. Correspondence
(includes letters from William H. Harrison, D.C. McCurtain, and others),
1912-46
1. Correspondence
(includes letters from William H. Harrison and Mrs.Green McCurtain, 1911-42
2. Correspondence
- Personal (includes letters written by Tucker as Attorney for the Choctaw
Nation, letter from Charles Victor concerning the appointment of Ben Dwight as Principal
Chief, and letters from W.F. Semple), 1930
3. Correspondence
- General,
4. Correspondence
with
5. Courts,
n.d.
6. Damages,
n.d.
7. Depositions
(various cases), 1913-17
8. District
Court Judgments (various cases), 1914-23
9. District
Court Proceedings (various cases), 1909-25
1. Ejectment,
Escrow Agreements, n.d.
2. Evidence,
n.d.
3. Execution,
Levying, etc.; Fence, Legal, etc., n.d.
4. Exemptions,
1914-15
5. Forcible
Entry and Detainer, 1913-36
6. Forms
(examples of legal documents)
7. Fraud;
Fraud in Conveyances, 1911
8.
9. Harrison,
William Henry - Successor (correspondence re. the appointment of a Principal
Chief of the Choctaw Nation, correspondents include W.B. Pine, W.F. Semple,
W.W. Hastings, C.H. Victor, Allen Wright, etc.), 1929-30
10. Hartshorne
Coal Company, 1913
11. Hastings,
Coal Bill, 1929
12. Heirship,
Diagrams - Samples;
13. Hugo
Convention (Convention of the Choctaw people at Hugo, Oklahoma,
1. Hugo
Matters (materials concerning various cases handled by Tucker & Hunter
Attorneys at Law, Hugo,
2. Indian
Affairs (various matters involving the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office
of Indian Affairs)1926-30
3.
4-5. Indian
Law Points, n.d.
6. Indian
Laws (Recent), 1914-35
7. Indians
-
1. Indian
Rolls (statistics covering period from 1830 to 1907, printed documents
pertaining to rolls, correspondence between Tucker and William H. Harrison),
1925-26
2. Indians
- Speeches (notes), n.d.
3. Indian
Tribal Matters; Indian Trust Estates (printed documents), 1910-30
4. Initiative
& Referendum; Innkeepers, 1913
5. Injunctions;
Injury to Stock, 1912
6. Interior,
Department of (correspondence between Tucker as Mining Trustee and the U.S. Department
of the Interior re. mineral tracts), 1933-37
7. Interstate
Commerce Commission (re. coal shipments by rail), 1928-30
8. Joint
Adventure; Judicial Sales; Justice of the Peace in General, 1913-14
9. Land
Sales (re. sale of lands and mineral interests of Choctaw and Chickasaw
Nations; sale of segregated coal deposits to the Defense Plant Corporation;
correspondence with W.A. Durant, Ben Dwight, Floyd Maytubby, and W.W. Short),
1945-47, 1916
10. Landlord
– Liability, n.d.
11. Leased District
(information about treaties involving land
12. settlement
with the Choctaws and Chickasaws; printed documents; correspondence with W.W.
Hastings, Wilburn Cartwright, W.B. Pine, C.H. Victor, and W.H. Harrison; and
briefs re. the "leased district claim," 1891-1931
1. Leased
District (printed documents; correspondence with Charles Carter, et al.;
typescript of Pitchlynn and Colbert speech explaining the signing of the 1866
treaty), 1924-26
2. Legal
Phrases; Life Insurance, n.d.
3. Legislative
Matters (documents concerning disposition of lands located on the
4. Legislation
Proposed (River Bed Oil Leases, Coal Lease Bill, Leased District Bill, Indian Trust
Estates Bill), 1925-27
5. Litigation
as Attorney for Choctaw Nation (correspondence between Tucker and W.F. Semple;
opinions of the Court of Claims of the United States re. the leased district
claim; and other documents re. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations vs.
6. McAlester
Abstract Company (dissolution), 1924
7. Mechanics
Lien, n.d.
8. Mining
Permits (correspondence of Tucker in his role as Mining Trustee; correspondence
between Tucker and the Department of Interior; applications for mining permits
and mineral leases; "Resolution of Board of Directors of Wilburton Oil
Company;" and correspondence with A.M. Landman), 1931-37
9. Mining
Trustee (documents relating to mine leasing by Thomas Coal Co.,
1. Mining
Trustee (documents relating to leasing by Cameron Coal Co.,
2. Miscellaneous
Publications (news clippings, programs), 1917, 1934
3. Mississippi
Choctaws ("Memorial of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations Relative to the
Rights of the Mississippi Choctaws;" documents relating to the Mississippi
Choctaws Case; correspondence between Tucker and W.F. Semple), 1927-28
4. Mortgages,
Renewals - Law Points, etc. (mostly points of law; some court documents),
1920-24
5. Motions
(court documents; correspondence), 1914-15
6. Murder;
Blacks (law points), n.d.
7. National
Surety Co. (Tucker served as a soliciting agent for this company.), 1925
8. Oil
and Gas Lease Forms, n.d.
9. Oil
and Gas Law Points, n.d.
1. Oil
and Gas Law Points, n.d.
2.
3. Opening
Rolls (correspondence, between Tucker and Congressmen as well as
representatives of the Department of Interior, concerning legislative bills to
confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear and determine certain claims
of persons to property rights as citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
or tribes), 1928-29
4. Partnership;
Payment (forms; points of law), n.d.
5. Personal
Injury (law points), 1912
6. Pleading
(law points), n.d.
7. Poteau
River Dam (legislation re.), 1926
8. Power
of Attorney (legal instruments), 1913-21
9. Proposed
Legislation (correspondence; drafts of bills i.e. coal bill, trust funds bill,
etc.), 1920-28
10. Quinton
Gas Field (plat), n.d.
11. Rape;
Receivership Matters (law points), 1914
12. Red
Cross (drought relief questionnaires; correspondence; and lists of restricted
and unrestricted Choctaws in Pittsburg County, OK, in need of immediate aid),
1930-31
13. Red
River Bed Case (correspondence with Department of Justice, et al), 1927-29
14. Releases
of Mortgage (forms), 1901-27
15. Rent
- How Collected (reference file), 1912-14
16. Replevin
(forms, legal instruments), 1914
1. Republican
Campaigns, 1928 (lists of Choctaw citizens in Bryan, Pittsburg, Latimer,
McCurtain and LeFlore Counties; list of Choctaw ministers and lay delegates
attending Indian Methodist Conference at Broken Bow; correspondence with
Republican State and Central Committees, William H. Harrison, C.H. Victor, H.H.
Hastings, and Robert E. Lee), 1928
2. Republican
Campaigns, 1936 (correspondence; resolutions adopted at Republican Convention
of Pittsburg County), 1936-37
3. Republican
National Committee Dope (news clippings; printed speeches; "The
Republican" newsletter; correspondence with Republican National
Committee), 1932-33
4. Republican
State and County Matters (lists of Republican Party officials; correspondence
with Republican State Committee; copies of speeches; lists of Republican Party
members of Pittsburg County), 1932-39
5. Res
Judicata (one page); Restriction and Removal (correspondence and copies of
bills and resolutions re. certain restrictions on lands of certain members of
the Five Civilized Tribes), 1928-31
6. Sales,
Personal Property, etc. (points of law), n.d.
7.
8. Senate
- Indian Committee Hearings (reports concerning beds or veins of coal and
location of tribal coal deposits; financial statements showing coal mined and
royalty paid; statements made by Hampton Tucker on the sale of coal; synopsis
of acts re. sale of coal and coal lands), 1942-43
1. Senate
- Indian Committee Hearings (contains materials similar to
2. Statements
of Account (audits of coal mining companies), 1901-27
3. Statutes,
Construction of; Statute of Limitations (law points), n.d.
4. Taxations,
Tax Deeds; Taxation of Indian Lands (law points; petition in case - Indian Coal
and Mining Company vs. J.I. Wood, County Treasurer of Pittsburg County), 1909
5. Titles
(to goods, etc.), n.d.
6. Township
Plats (Stephens and
7. Townships
and Municipalities, Counties (law points), 1915-18
8. Trial
Points; Trusts (law points), n.d.
9. Tuskahoma
League (league to select candidates that Indians should vote for;
correspondence with William H. Harrison), 1927
1. Tuskahoma
Program (Fourth Annual Meeting Choctaw Educational IKSA - Clan, includes
correspondence with Wilburn Cartwright, William A. Durant, et al), 1938-41
2. Use
and Occupation; Usury; Verification (law points), n.d.
3. Wills,
Law Points, n.d.
1. Abbott,
F.R., 1923-24
2. Aldrich,
Mary W., 1924-26
3. Anoletubby,
Annie, 1932-40
4. Arnold,
Woods, 1922
5. Arpealer,
Gilbert, 1920-22
6. Baker,
Logan, 1922-25
7. Benton,
Edward (proof of heirship), 1934
8. Boatman,
Sibbie, 1923-25
9. Brandy,
Betsy, 1920-21
10. Byington,
Winnie E., 1919-22
11. Carnes,
Minors, 1917-18
1. Carney,
Albert, 1918-30
2. Carney,
Norris, 1931
3. Cartwright,
Wilburn - Correspondence with, 1929-32
4. Choate,
W.A., 1918
5. Clay,
Josephine, 1920
6. Clay,
Kizzie, 1920-21
7. Cochnauer,
1923-26
8. Colbert,
Jim, 1921
9. Colbert,
Walter - Correspondence with (re. coal leases), 1931-37
10. Compelube,
Fred J., 1920-22
11. Compelube,
Thad, 1927-32
12. Damel,
1925-26
13. Durant,
Gleason; Durant, Julius, 1921-25
1. Durant,
W.A. (correspondence about coal leases and other matters), 1937-48
2. Ferrante,
1918
3. Frazier,
4. Frazier,
Siley, 1919
5.
6.
7. Gleason,
Tom, 1923
1. Gleason,
Tom, 1915-22
2. Gorseline,
1915-20
3. Green,
Mattie; Green, Robert, 1935-40
4. Gunther,
Andrew P.; Hall, H.J., 1914, 1919
5. Hancock,
Isaac; Hancock, Louis, 1917-32
6. Haney;
Hardy, Elesine, 1925-26
7. Harreld,
J.W. - Senator (correspondence with Robert E. Lee, Chairman, Republican County
Central Committee, Irving Page, campaign manager, C.H. Victor, "Resolution
Condemning the So-Called Choctaw National Committee," and printed copies
of U.S. Congress bills and resolutions), 1926
8. Harrison,
Thomas, 1923
9. Harrison,
William Henry - 1929 Address ("Special Suits," "Leased District
Claims," "Claims of J.F. McMurray," "Coal and Asphalt
Deposits," "Tribal Schools"), 1929
10. Harrison,
Governor - Correspondence (re. the Restriction Bill and the Hasting's Bill), 1928
11. Harrison,
Chief - Correspondence (re. the Extension Bill and the Leased District), 1927,
1929
12.
13.
1.
2.
3. Hawkins,
Winnie, 1923-24
4. Hepburn,
James - Candidacy (Governor), 1926, 1928
5. Himonubbe,
Bobbie; Hosey, H.P. – Idabel, 1923-24
6. Hudlow,
J.W., 1915, 1921
7. Hudson,
Peter W. (letters re. tribal political affairs), 1948
8. Huff,
M.W.; Hundley, J.W., 1919, 1922
9. Jackson,
Andrew - Red Oak (family tree), n.d.
10. Jackson,
Andrew, 1925-26
11. Jackson,
Elum, 1920-21
12. Jackson,
Freeman; Jackson, Henry; Jackson, Roman, 1916-24
1. Jacob,
Malissa (family tree, census rolls, etc.), 1923-24
2. James,
E.A.; James, Mary; James, Sallissie, 1920-29
3. Jones,
Robert, 1923-25
4. Johnnie,
Andrew, 1928-31
5. Johnnie
and Roosevelt Hall, 1919-20
6. Johnson,
Cillin (minors); Johnson, J.E.; Johnson, Noel, 1920-35
7. Jones,
Willie, Ida and Impson, 1921
8. Joseph,
Jefferson; Killcrease, 1920-21
1. King,
John, 1919-21
2. Leader,
Morris, 1923-29
3. Leard,
J.A., 1917-30