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

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nt of their tribal titles to lands, either by selling thesame to the United States or by allotment or division of theirlands to the members of the tribes in severalty. By the Act ofMarch 2, 1895, the commission was increased in number to fivemembers. As stated elsewhere this commission did not meet withmuch success for several years, for the reason that the Indiantribes were emphatically opposed to abandoning their tribal titles,customs and mode of living. They were apparently willing to per-mit the white man to remain here, to rent their lands and carrv onmercantile business, so long as he paid a reasonable occupationtax to the tribe, but they protested against any interference withtheir tribal institutions or conditions. ACT OF JUNE 10, 1896 On June 10, 1896, Congress passed an act enlarging the dutiesof the Dawes Commission by providing that it should proceed tohear and determine the applications of all persons who mightapply for citizenship in any of the Five Tribes, and to make a
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 401 complete roll of all persons who were entitled to tribal rights.This was the first step taken toward the curtailment of the author-ity of the tribal councils, for prior to the passage of this act, thetribal councils had exclusive jurisdiction in the matter of deter-mining who should be enrolled as members of their respectivetribes. This Act of Congress gave the commission a somewhat betterstanding with the Indians, for it convinced them that the com-mission would now do something besides negotiating with them. Again, the Act of Congress of June 7, 1897, after making anappropriation for salaries and expenses of the Dawes Commission,provided that on and after January 1, 1898, the United Statescourts in Indian Territory should have original and exclusivejurisdiction and authority to try and determine all civil cases inlaw and equity thereafter instituted, and all criminal cases for thepunishment of any offense committed after January 1, 1898, byany

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