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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Letter written by Lewis Ross, Fort Gibson, to his son, Henry Ross, with mention of a Captain Tallallah, and review of conditions in the Cherokee Nation Native American, Cherokee 4026.272.1 ink on paper
Letter from Henry C. Ross to his father, Lewis Ross regarding his concern for the Cherokee people in the Nation, being killed by the Rebels Native American, Cherokee 4026.261-.1 ink on paper
Sheet music for "The Celebrated Death Song of the Cherokee Indians" Native American, Cherokee 5316.378 ink on paper
Letter from H. T. Martin to John Drew concerning Old Settler claims and the killing of two Cherokees Native American, Cherokee 4026.1800 ink on paper
Personal letter written from Kate Drew at the Orphan Asylum addressed to My Dear Sister Native American, Cherokee 4026.2001.1 ink on paper
Typescript of "My Life", with pencil corrections and notes by Margaret Louise Wallace William Robinson Leigh American 2317.479 ink on onion skin paper
Deed from A. B. to John Drew of Negro slave girl Native American, Cherokee 4026.1643 ink on paper
Deed by Rachel McDaniel of one Negro slave girl to John Drew Native American, Cherokee 4026.1646 ink on paper
Deed by William Dutch of one Negro boy to John Drew Native American, Cherokee 4026.1653 ink on paper
Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown Native American; Cherokee MC.1954.26
Manuscript Collection: Sequoyah Papers Native American; Cherokee MC.1954.194
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing Unidentified Native Americans, Cheyenne 4526.19.10
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing Unidentified Native American; Arapaho, Cheyenne 4526.11.1
Dead Indians on the battlefield of Wounded Knee the morning after the battle Unidentified Native Americans, Sioux 4326.4992
Battle of the Big Hole 1877 Olaf Carl Seltzer American 01.853 oil on board
Capt John Smith and Party Landing at Jamestown May 14, 1607 John Mix Stanley American 01.1145 oil on canvas
The Wounded Bunkie Frederic Remington, 1861 - 1909 (Artist) American 08.35 sand cast in bronze
Buffalo Henry Merwin Shrady, 1871 - 1922 (Artist) American 08.134 lost-wax cast in bronze
From Ferg Mead to Nancy C. Russell American TU2009.39.3568.1-8 paper
Wounded Knee South Dakota Unidentified American TU2009.39.7022c-d gelatin silver process