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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.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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erokee Nation. Each of the other tribes had its own capital. GENERAL COUNCIL FOR INDIAN TERRITORY For many years, various Federal officials urged the five tribesto agree to the establishment of a Territorial Council to be com-posed of delegates from each tribe empowered to enact legislationof a general character for the whole territory. The several tribeswere inclined to regard the proposition with suspicion, apparentlyfearing that it might result in their losing some of their tribalrights and authority, or that it might be an attempt upon the partof the Government to cajole them into an agreement to abolishtheir tribal governments. The various tribes were finally inducedto try the experiment, however, the Government agreeing to paythe expenses of delegates to an annual council to be held at Okmul-gee, the capital of the Creek Nation. The first session was heldin 1870, and the council continued to meet annually for severalyears thereafter without accomplishing any material results. Up
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> ( MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 23 to 1875, the Government had paid out $66,500 as expenses of thedelegates to the general council meetings, but during its fiveannual sessions not a single act of legislation was passed. 0 NO MANS LAND The narrow strip of territory, which adjoined Kansas andColorado on the south, commonly called No Mans Land, hashad a peculiar history. The map-makers attached it as a sort ofhandle to Indian Territory, because they did not know what elseto do with it. Kansas did not claim it, Colorado did not want it,Oklahoma, not yet organized, could not control it, and the UnitedStates exercised but slight, if any, jurisdiction over it. This stateof affairs made it an ideal rendezvous for the gamblers, boot-leggers, cattle thieves and fugitives from justice. Many of thembelieved that neither state nor Nation had the authority to arrestany one on this neutral strip, and any deputy undertaking such atask was liable to die with his boots on. But how did No Mans

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