1900s Cherokee Nation Oklahoma Dawes Rolls Attorney Correspondence

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Attorneys for the Cherokee Nation Before the United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes // Cherokee Enrollment Division letterhead; W.W. Hastings Attorney and J.C. Starr Secretary.   From the office in Tahlequah Indian Territory 7/9 1903 (four years before Oklahoma Statehood) answering Margaret E. Curry in Coffeyville Kansas   Madam = The man xx whom you are enlisting has not got...

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Attorneys for the Cherokee Nation Before the United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes // Cherokee Enrollment Division letterhead; W.W. Hastings Attorney and J.C. Starr Secretary.

 

From the office in Tahlequah Indian Territory 7/9 1903 (four years before Oklahoma Statehood) answering Margaret E. Curry in Coffeyville Kansas

 

Madam = The man xx whom you are enlisting has not got his citizenship approved & until that is decided xx cannot buy your land contracts. I will notify you in time. Yours truly, W.W. Hastings.

 

Presumably concerning inclusion on the Dawes Rolls. Signed W.W. (William Wirt) Hastings, whose biography is well worth your time.

 

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Measures 5.75 x 9.25” w/ original folds and ink bleed. 

 

Background is for photography purposes only, the letter is not mounted.