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1. Cherokee Advocate--June 18, 1870. Address of Samuel Checote.
2. Cherokee Advocate--June 18, 1870. A letter from an attendee of the Grand Council, re: the object and proceedings of the council.
3. The Vindicator--September 14, 1872. An editorial on Samuel Checote.
4. The Vindicator--July 3, 1875. Editorial on G.W. Grayson.
5. October 5, 1875. Message of Samuel Checote to the Honorable Houses of Kings and Warriors.
6. December 6, 1879. Message of Samuel Checote to the Houses of Kings and Warriors, re: education of Creek children.
7. October 5, 1880. Message of Samuel Checote to the Houses of the Kings and Warriors.
8. October 30, 1882. Message of Samuel Checote to the members of the National Council.
9. Cherokee Advocate--March 23, 1883. Editorial on Letter of Checote (sic) to D.W. Bushyhead.
10. Indian Journal--October 18, 1883. Message of Samuel Checote to the National Council.
11. Record Book of Chief Samuel Checote in Early Sixties (sic). Includes general laws of the Creek Nation enacted and resolutions made during the early 1860s. Also included are miscellaneous documents to 1874, and a letter apparently in Creek written in 1890.
12. March 30, 1882. Letter from Halpatuce, Chief of the Seminoles, to Samuel Checote, re: a meeting with Cockr (sic) about "the case in hand".
13. September 1, 1864. Samuel Checote et al to General D.H. Cooper requesting that Samuel Checote be placed in command of one of the brigades forming the Indian Division.
14. October 19, 1880. Samuel Checote to the Houses of the Kings and Warriors, re: the return without approval a bill granting C.W. Turner permission to hold and graze cattle in the Creek Nation.
15. August 25, 1883. Clinton B. Frisk to Samuel Checote, re: intruders in the Creek Nation.
16. May 24, 1884. Samuel Checote to J.M. Perryman.
Flap Folder II
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1. Indian Champion--September 13, 1884. Death of Samuel Checote.
2. Oklahoma War Chief--July 15, 1886. "How to become a Squaw Man". The marriage permit cited was signed by Chief Checote.
3. 1899. "Samuel Checote" (sic), a chapter from A Brief History of the Missionary Work in Indian Territory by F.M. Moore.
4. Chronicles of Oklahoma--September 1926 (Vol. 4 #3). "Biographical sketch of Samuel Checote" by C.A. Lambert (pages 275-280).
5. 1926. "Principal Chief Samuel Checote", taken from page 876 of Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People by J.B. Thoburn and M.H. Wright. All four volumes can be found in the Western History Library under the call number F 694.T45. Other sets can be found in Bizzell Library under the same call number.