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  MSN Encarta - Cherokee
Wars with the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) tribes and with the Delaware (Lenni Lenape), both of whom controlled extensive lands in the region, pushed the Cherokee southeast to the mountains and valleys of the southern part of the Appalachian chain.
Surplus lands not assigned to Cherokee individuals were parceled out by the federal government, and in 1891 the tribe’s western land extension, the Cherokee Strip or Cherokee Outlet, was sold to the United States; in 1893 it was opened, mostly to non-Indian settlers, in a famous land run.
Cherokee families typically had two dwellings: rectangular summer houses with cane and clay walls and bark or thatch roofs, and cone-shaped winter houses with pole frames and brushwork covered by mud or clay.
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 Cherokee Outlet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This was in addition to the land given to the Cherokees for settlement after their arrival from their home in (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia.
After the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War, the Cherokees were required to renegotiate their treaties due to their alliance with the (The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861) Confederacy.
On September 16, 1893, the Cherokee Outlet was settled in the largest (additional info and facts about land run) land run in the United States.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/cherokee_outlet.htm   (495 words)

  
 Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a forced migration undertaken by the Cherokee Indians of the eastern United States in 1838-39.
The Cherokee were given two years to migrate voluntarily, at the end of which time they would be forcibly removed.
Surplus lands were parceled out by the federal government, and in 1891 the tribe's western land extension, the Cherokee Strip or Cherokee Outlet, was sold to the United States; in 1893 it was opened, mostly to white settlers, in a famous land run.
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 Cherokee History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Meanwhile, the Cherokee homeland in the east was rapidly being whittled away by American settlement reflected by a series of treaties: Hopewell 1785; Holston 1791; Philadelphia 1794; Tellico 1798, 1804, 1805, and 1806.
The Cherokee Nation voted to secede from the United States in August, 1861, and a formal treaty was signed at the Park Hill home of John Ross between the Cherokee Nation and the new Confederate government.
Meanwhile the Cherokee allegiance to the Confederacy faltered.
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 Search Results for "Outlet"
...Cherokee Strip, or Cherokee Outlet, a narrow piece of land in N Oklahoma.
Located in the outlet channel of glacial Lake Agassiz, it is the source of the Minnesota...
His tragedies and comedies are affected and undistinguished, but he found an outlet for his talent in the 14 opera librettos which he wrote for Lully....
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Outlet   (280 words)

  
 Cherokee History
New constitution ratified at convention uniting Cherokees arriving from the east with those in the west.
Cherokee Nation torn by border warfare throughout the Civil War.
The project, which ran for three years beginning Oct.1 1990, authorized the tribe to assume tribal responsiblity for BIA funds which were formerly being spent on the tribe's behalf at the agency, area and central office levels.
www.powersource.com /nation/dates.html   (906 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CHEROKEE INDIANS
The Cherokees were quick to adapt many material elements of European culture to their own society, a characteristic that led to their designation as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes." They established a constitutional government with a senate, a house of representatives, and an elected chief.
Cherokees were first reported in Texas in 1807, when a small band, probably an offshoot of the Arkansas settlements, established a village on the Red River.
The Cherokees decided to fight for their land, and the resulting conflict came to be known as the Cherokee War.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/bmc51.html   (2419 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
In his opinion, the Cherokee treaty of 1833 was broad enough in its terms to convey a fee simple title to the lands, and there was no limitation to the title conveyed by the United States under the treaty.
Cherokee lands west of ninety-six degrees because of the Cherokee treaty of 1866.
He maintained that the Cherokee title was in no wise compromised by the privilege granted the United States in the treaty of 1866; that it remained the same as before the privilege was granted, by reason of retained possession and jurisdiction.
digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v016/v016p036.html   (5043 words)

  
 Tommy Bahama Outlet
An outlet mall (or outlet centre) is a type of shopping mall, in which manufacturers sell their products directly to the public through their own branded stores.
Outlet malls first appeared in the United States as a development of the traditional factory outlet: a store attached to a factory or warehouse, selling surplus stock at discounted prices.
Therefore, factory outlets are usually located at least 20 kilometers outside of major cities, and consumers must account for gasoline costs and driving time when calculating their net savings.
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 CHEROKEE STRIP
Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip is one of the few places where the pioneer spirit that settled American is still vibrant enough to experience.
It is a land as diverse as America itself, with rolling Osage prairies in the east to gypsum sand dunes and the rugged Glass Mountains in the west.
In 1828, the U.S. government gave the land to the Cherokees, calling the area the Cherokee Outlet because the tribe could cross freely to hunting grounds in the west.
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 LASR - body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Treaty of New Echota (Georgia) in 1835, assured the Cherokee Nation of a "perceptual outlet west, and a free and unmolested use of all the county west of...said seven million acres." thus the Cherokee outlet was created.
The Cherokee Strip is a strip of ground 2.46 miles wide, all in Kansas, that runs from the Neosho River on the east of the 100th meridian on the west.
The Cherokee Outlet is rectangular in shape and is 58 miles wide and 222 miles long, containing approximately 8,240,000 acres.
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 ICT [2003/04/16]  Cherokee members honored
Davis is one of the founders of The Cherokee Outlet Indian Organization and currently serves as president.
Shell, of Greasy, Okla., is the pastor of the Badger Lee Baptist Church in Sallisaw and a full-time employee of the Cherokee Nation.
She was one of the original Cherokee Nation community health representatives and the first patient advocate for Cherokee speaking patients at W.W. Hastings Hospital.
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 Cherokee Outlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In part, the agreement defined land known as the Cherokee Outlet and provided an assurance to the Cherokee Nation of a "perpetual outlet west." The strip of land, running west of the 96th meridian and approximately 57 miles wide, became commonly known as the Cherokee Strip.
The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association leased the excellent grasslands in the western part of the Outlet from the Cherokee Tribe.
The opening of the Cherokee Outlet was the fourth, and largest, of Oklahoma's five land runs.
www.cherokee-strip-museum.org /Outlet.htm   (249 words)

  
 Map of Cherokee Strip & Cherokee Outlet
This land was given as an assurance to the Cherokee nation of a perpetual outlet west and a free and unmolested use of all the country west.
This treaty required the Cherokees to surrender 8,000,000 acres of their land in Georgia, and a payment of $5,000,000 (about 65 cents and acre).
This strip of land was held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Cherokee Nation.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/state/outlet/strip.html   (458 words)

  
 Cherokee Outlet (alva)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Cherokee Outlet Chapter erected this brick wall to commemorate the people who lived in Woods County during the first 100 years.
Cherokee Outlet Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on November 12, 1913, chiefly through the efforts of Mrs.
Those who made the Cherokee Outlet Land Run had to register at this post office to obtain their homestead permit.
www.okdar.org /cherokeeoutlet   (306 words)

  
 History of the Cherokee Outlet
Still the Cherokees were not satisfied with the system because they had to depend on the cattlemen for an accurate count.
When the commission failed to reach an agreement, Secretary of the Interior John Noble studied the treaty with the Cherokees and decided their title to the lands in the Cherokee Outlet was not absolute.
The title to the Outlet was cleared in May and on Sept. 16, 1893, in the greatest land run ever held, the vast grassland was opened for white settlement.
www.rootsweb.com /~itoutlet/history.htm   (758 words)

  
 "the People's Paths home page!" Cheokee Legal Documents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
So the dispute there was whether this crime occurring in the Cherokee Outlet, was under the jurisdiction of the Kansas federal court or under the Western District of Arkansas over Indian Territory.
The dispute her was whether the Cherokee Outlet had been set apart and occupied by the Cherokees.
That the Cherokee Nation has never been any part of the Outlet except where is has sold, it comes down to hold, Your Honor, here is a plain recognition of the title of the Cherokees by the government of the United States with their wide position and jurisdiction.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /Cherokee/LegalDocuments/complexCR91-26.htm   (2040 words)

  
 Darline's Story
Jordan, commissioned as a special agent for the Cherokee Nation, was a member of the Indian Police, and served as a United States military scout and United States deputy Marshal under Judge Issac Parker.
They claimed the Outlet lands had been abandoned by the Cherokees therefore it was "public domain" of the United States and should be opened for settlement.
He further ruled that cattlemen leasing the Outlet area were considered Cherokee agents and that the Outlet had been given to the Cherokees "perpetually" for their use.
www.kaycounty.info /ncoha/stories/triangle.htm   (2044 words)

  
 MILITARY FORT SUPPLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Fort Supply was located in the western part of the Cherokee Outlet in present Woodward County, Oklahoma.
Cavalry and Indian scouts patrolled the Cherokee Outlet's large cattle ranches that occupied leases in the region during the early 1880s.
The last significant task for the soldiers was serving as a police force during the public land openings of the late 1880s and the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893.
www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/ftftsply.htm   (456 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
of the entire Outlet for a period of five years, for the sum of $100,000 per year, payable semi-annually in advance, Members of the association agreed that they would erect no permanent buildings on the Outlet and that all temporary improvements should go to the Cherokees upon the expiration of the lease.
The proposition was declined on the ground that the constitution of the Cherokees forbade its consideration.
Cherokee Strip to blossom like the rose, and make the land that is now the abode of the Texas steer, produce bountifully of all kinds of crops and cereals.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v009/v009p268.html   (5362 words)

  
 Oklahoma Photos
The United States guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation that this land would be a perpetual outlet west for tribal hunting grounds, measured 58 miles wide and extending 220 miles along the northern border.
Land hungry settlers viewed the cattlemen's use of the area as a waste of fertile farmland and pressured the government to purchase the Cherokee land from the Cherokee.
In 1907 when Oklahoma acquired statehood the following counties were made from existing counties in the Cherokee Outlet: Alfalfa County was formed from Woods County; Ellis County was formed from Day and Woodward Counties; Harper County was formed from Indian Lands, Woods and Woodward Counties; Major County was formed from Woods County.
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 Cherokee Outlet / Cherokee Strip
President Grover Cleveland designated September 16, 1893, as the date of the opening of the Cherokee Outlet  that Congress had paid $8,505,736 or about $1.40 per acre.
As these hopefuls swarmed the Kansas and Oklahoma Territorial borders, they impatiently waited for the Cherokee Outlet to be opened.
Participants were to provide their names, addresses, ages, and a description of themselves, along with their signature on an affidavit that they would not enter the Outlet before noon September 16, 1893.
www.rootsweb.com /~itoutlet   (425 words)

  
 Aline, Oklahoma - * TRAVEL * LODGING * COMMUNITY
The Cherokee Outlet, and the part of it commonly called the Cherokee Strip, are a colorful chapter in Oklahoma history.
By the opening of the Cherokee Outlet, there were added to the settled and organized portions of Oklahoma seven new counties, designated as K, L, M, N, O, P and Q. The names adopted by vote of the people of these counties respectively were Kay, Grant, Woods, Woodward, Garfield, Noble and Pawnee.
Nineteenth century Oklahoma was the last refuge of the red man, coveted by the cattleman, sought by land-hungry "Boomers", and finally settled in the most dramatic series of land openings in the world's history.
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 History of the Cherokee Outlet
The Cherokee Outlet, known generally today as the Cherokee Strip, was a part of lands exchanged by the Cherokees living in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia for lands in the West.
The Treaty of New Echota, signed in 1835, defined it as a perpetual outlet west and gave them free and unmolested use of the buffalo hunting lands in the west.
In other treaties, the government settled other tribes on parts of the Outlet which in effect cut the Cherokees off from their hunting land in the west.
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 Cherokee Outlet Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Gateways to the Promised Land: The Role Played by the Southern Kansas Towns in the Opening of the Cherokee Strip to ...
Specifically, the outlet was a strip of land directly south of and parallel to the southern Kansas border, bounded on the east by the Arkansas river and on the west by Beaver county and Texas.
The Cherokee nation resided upon a rectangular tract to the east of the outlet.
The losses were not quite as severe as they seemed, when it is realized that boomers were gathering for the expected opening as early as 1891, and those who got jobs locally were accepted and counted as part of the resident population, when in fact and intention they were not.
www.kancoll.org /khq/1959/59_1_lough.htm   (5790 words)

  
 Cherokee Strip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The more well known Cherokee Outlet in present-day Oklahoma.
The lesser known Cherokee Strip in present-day Kansas.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee_Strip   (89 words)

  
 Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Purpose: The museum mission is to collect, preserve and interpret the history of the Cherokee Outlet.
By leasing the excellent grasslands in the Outlet to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association, the Cherokee made a profit on their western lands.
The Cherokee Strip Museum provides an opportunity to explore the remarkable events and people who made-up the history of the Outlet.
www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /mus-sites/masnum04.htm   (448 words)

  
 What are the Cherokee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Cherokee played an important role in colonial America and in United States history; they remain one of the largest tribes in the United States.
Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that the Cherokee migrated in prehistoric
Cherokee appeals for federal protection were rejected by President
www.shadowwolf.org /what_are_the_cherokee.html   (590 words)

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