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English: Hon. J. George Wright, First U. S. Indian inspector.

Identifier: muskogeenortheas00bene (find matches)
Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
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had with theauthorities at Washington. At various times he was employed bythe Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Cherokees as their attorneyand special agent in important cases before the Interior Depart-ment and before the U. S. Supreme Court. In an extended interview with the committee on Territoriesof the House of Representatives at Washington, in 1904 he opposedthe proposition to unite Indian Territory and Oklahoma Terri-tories into one state, claiming that the restrictions should be re-moved from all Indian lands except homesteads, so that the landmight soon become taxable and Indian Territory be eligible toseparate statehood, but when Congress decided to combine thetwo Territories into one state he gave the new state his heartysupport. Soon after statehood was accomplished he was chosen asUnited States Senator which position he still retains. In thesenate he has made a special study of national finances and tooka prominent part in shaping and enacting the National ReserveBank law.
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HON. J. GEORGE WRIGHTFirst U. S. Indian inspector, at present in charge of Osage Tribe MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 295J. GEORGE WRIGHT J. George Wright, now about sixty years of age, has been in theUnited States Indian service from his boyhood days to the presenttime. In 1883 he was employed as clerk in the Rose Bud IndianAgency in South Dakota. Dakota was a pretty wild country inthose days, and the Indians were inclined to take to the war-pathupon the slightest provocation, but young Wright displayed suchgood tact in his intercourse with them, that at the age of 29 he wasappointed by President Harrison as agent for the Sioux tribe,which then consisted of 7,500 Indians, only partly civilized. In1896 he was appointed as United States Indian inspector and in1898 was assigned to Indian Territory, with headquarters at Mus-kogee. At that time Indian Territory had no form of governmentexcept the separate governments of the Five Civilized Tribeswhich were rapidly approaching dissoluti

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