Indian justice : a Cherokee murder trial at Tahlequah in 1840
Record details
- ISBN: 0806134208
- ISBN: 9780806134208
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Physical Description:
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xxviii, 112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: Red River books ed.
- Publisher: Norman [Okla.] : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Genre: | Trial and arbitral proceedings. Trials, litigation, etc. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | KF 228 .S55 P39 2002 | 259142 | Stacks | Available | - |
Summary:
"In Indian Justice, Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die." "Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the New York Journal of Commerce in 1841"--Jacket.