[NATIVE AMERICAN] -- [OKLAHOMA TERRITORY]. Manuscript ledger from trading post at Cloud Chief, Oklahoma Territory, with detailed purchase records for members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe, ca 1903-1904.

arapaho cheyenne chief cloud ledger colony represented seger tribes women purchased tribal members oklahoma community include families trading tribe 1903 page americans pages marked listed cloth identified delineated documented notable consignor relates corresponding provides offered distinguishable represents provide reproduction stereoview context manuscript fought whites evidenced territory 1846-1928 approximately post native settled southern items likely p125 p210 mother earlier self-sufficient industrial american names held allotment indian established prominent later people individuals purchases followed forced lived pioneer traditional fasts left years early local washita methods assimilation miles county policy implemented reservation listing frequently hand school history farming europeanized 1870s replaced large present-day purchase number account agricultural frequented household pocket personal beads living carlisle schools residents continuing just picture throats detailed identifying assimilating anglo-american year spanning government training records alongside education month associated river transaction break-up lands skills process city transactions place advocate legacy began potential photographs leather title griffen information 1886 intent bears decades-long 1892 cheyenne-arapaho opened identifies taking cost foodstuffs knife needles p152 prisoners wars father confederates creek eventually worked p102 favorite boxing fishing separately likewise lodge introduction teach away ways dependent historical artifact research conducted states 1903-1904 inscription visited built government-sanctioned eliminating ability signficant beckham fort united covered boards heavy wear especially corners 377pp approx 285pp utilized alphabetical index beginning individual located john thousands extraordinary insight buying habits witness results government's town's balance peaches coffee butter beef bacon eggs crackers sugar candy fabric including muslin calico buttons pre-made clothing robes shawls overalls shoes socks shirts boy's suit matches tobacco soap rope mattress blankets earrings ribbon henry roman nose p167 packer p175 following little jake washington anglo civil survived massacre sand grant student bear according wrestling east winter spent summers hunting groups husbands step painful decades medicine herding dawes 1887 cultural transactional evidence transition demonstrating extent heavily scarce importance short distance applied paper label verso scalpers confined spanish mid-to-late1870s edges possibly white perfume 1891 bent bull family treaty passage traditions spine interior griffin settlement marbles generations marion appointed george jock larger broader 1867 anticipating identity subsist