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DeWitt Lipe-Cherokee Strip papers

Collection 1991-001

Dates:  1870-1913.

Extent:  (1 box).

Level of Description:  Item level.

Name of creator(s):  DeWitt Lipe.

Date of creation:  Undetermined.

Scope and Content:  Consists of autograph, autograph transcriptions, and typed letters and documents of DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. In general, the papers relate to the Cherokee Nation's taxation and licensing requirements of Texas stockmen who grazed cattle on Indian lands west of the Arkansas River, known as the "Cherokee Strip," on their way to the Kansas stockyards. Until the early 1880s, cattle driven up the Chisholm and Texas trails by Kansas and Texas cattlemen, were grazed on lands leased from the Cherokee Nation before being taken to the Kansas railheads. The Cherokee Nation earned profits from these grazing leases until, for reasons unknown, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ordered a halt to them.  Also included in the papers are various Acts and Resolutions relating to the welfare of the citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

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Language and Scripts:  English.

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition:  Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum in Sept, 1991.

Date(s) of description:   Milissa Burkart, Nov 1991.

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Inventory

Correspondence
George F. Towle [?], Captain, 19th U. S. Infantry
1:1 To Lipe (Treasurer, Cherokee Nation.) Handwritten and signed letter, 28 Jun 1881, 1s. In reference to the Cherokee Cattle Tax collection.  
     
Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead,  Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
1:2 To Lipe (Treasurer, Cherokee Nation.) Handwritten and signed letter, 30 May 1882, 4s. In reference to grazing rights and land leases.  
     
DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer, Cherokee Nation
1:3 To S. Jackson (agent for the New York Cattle Company, Indian Territory). Handwritten transcription of a letter, 24 Aug 24 1883, 1s.  
     
Samuel Houston Mayes, Sheriff, Cooweeskowee District, Indian Territory
1:4  To Lipe (Treasurer, Cherokee Nation.). Handwritten and signed letter, 25 Aug 1883, 1s.  
     
John Drew [?]
1:5 To Blackstone, Major P. N. and George O. Sanders. Handwritten and signed letter, 1 Sept 1883, 3s plus envelope.  
     
R.L. Owen [?]
1:6 To Major DeWitt Lipe.  Handwritten and signed letter, 10 Sept 1883, 1s. In reference to Lipe’s licensing of Cherokee citizens in the area west of 96 degrees.  
     
Robert B. Ross, Treasurer, Cherokee Nation
1:7  To E.M. Hewins (President) and the directors in trust of the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association. Typed letter, 1 Oct 1888, 2s.  
     
DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer, Cherokee Nation
1:8 To Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Handwritten letter, Aug 1897, 2s. In reference to payment due to Attorney John J. Weed, Washington, D. C.  
     
J.E. Campbell
1:9 To Major DeWitt Lipe. Handwritten letter fragment, 17 Nov 1906, 3s.  
     
Department of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service, Muskogee
1:10 To Lipe and Nannie Eva. Typed and signed letter, 10 Sept 1909, 1s. In reference to the cancellation of the current oil and gas mining lease on her property.  
     
  Oil and gas mining lease.  
 
Documents
1:11 Preamble and Resolutions adopted at a session of the Old Settler Council held at Tahlequah, 3p. Signed by W.A. [?] Hendricks, Chairman, and W.W. Breedlove [?], clerk.  
     
1:12 Handwritten transcription of Joint Resolution No. 3 by the National Council in reference to the bonds [held by] DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. Signed by I.P. [?] Davis, President of the Senate. 29 Nov 1879, 1p.  
     
1:13 Handwritten transcription of an Act to provide breadstuffs for the Cherokee people. Approved by Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation, 3 Dec 1879, 2p.  
     
1:14 Handwritten transcription of an Act for the support of the primary and high schools of the Cherokee Nation for the years 1879 and 1880. Approved by Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation, 3 Dec 1879, 1p.  
     
1:15 Handwritten transcription of an Act making appropriations for the National Prison for the fiscal year. Approved by Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation, 8 Dec 1879, 1p.  
     
1:16 Handwritten transcription of an Act instructing and empowering the delegation to Washington, D. C. appointed under the Act, 25 Nov 1879; additional handwritten and signed draft by the Executive Department, 10 Dec 1879, 2p.  
     
1:17 Handwritten draft opinion in favor of the fencing practices of stockmen on Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River (Cherokee Strip). Author unknown, 2p.  
     
1:18 Certificate in reference to the election of DeWitt Lipe to the office of Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, 14 Nov 1895. Approved by Samuel Houston Mayes, Principal Chief, 2 Dec 1895.  
     
1:19 Certificate in reference to the election of DeWitt Lipe to the office of member of the General Council for the Illinois District, Aug, 1871. Approved by Lewis Downing, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation, 15 Nov 1871.  
     
1:20 Application for a Grazing License to hold stock in Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River by Spencer and Drew [?] of Dodge City, Kansas, 1 Sept 1882.  
     
  Hand-drawn map indicating location of ranch.  
     
1:21 Excised pages from a tax ledger listing names of payees, amounts paid, and dates of payment, 4p.  
     
1:22 Handwritten list of funds received and dispersed by DeWitt Lipe from 1879 to 1883, 1p.  
     
  Additional handwritten list of individual names, amounts paid, and record of payments not made, 1p.  
     
1:23 Handwritten receipt for $3008.60 (school moneys) received and signed for by R.L. Owen [Secretary, Board of Education], from DeWitt Lipe, 30 Nov 1883.  
     
1:24 Mass affidavit of transfer of interest in The Indian Chieftain[sic], a Vinita newspaper, from George O. Saunders to DeWitt Lipe, 26 Aug 1883.  
     
1:25 Pension payment voucher for DeWitt Lipe, c1911.  
     
  Work permit granting DeWitt Lipe permission to employ one individual for 2 months, 1 Jan 1893.  
     
  Punch-ticket for the Mendenhall Radium Water Bath House for Major DeWitt Lipe, 1913.  
     
1:26 Handwritten and signed Last Will and Testament of O.N. Lipe of the Gibson Cherokee Nation, Aug, 1870, 1p.  
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