Volume 9 , Issue 17

OkieLegacy Centennial Moment

"I found this 1907 Centennial moment in the The Oklahoman, dated November 16, 1907, pg.2. The headlines read as follows: "Calls Indians To Conference" with sub-headlines of "Tribal Heads Go To Washington To Plan for Governmental Changes."

Special to The Oklahoman, Muskogee, I. T., November 15, 1907 -- "Secretary Garfield has called in all of the chiefs of the five civilized tribes, for what is believed to be the final conference pending the wiping out of the last vestige of tribal government. The chiefs will attend the Trans-Mississippi congress at Muskogee and leave immediately after in a body for Washington. This is the first time in the history of the five tribes that all of the chiefs have been called t Washington for conference at one time."

"Moty Tiger is chief of the Creeks; C. W. Rogers, Cherokee; John Brown, Seminole; Dourglas Johnston, Chickasaw, and Green McCurtain, Choctaw. They will wind up what affairs their tribes have left. At the meeting in Washington they will take up with the secretary the disposition of the property now held by the different tribes, such as national council holdings, tribal school buildings an other public property. This property is to be disposed of under the direction of the secretary of interior and he wants the counsel of the chiefs in the matter."
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