Oklahoma Black Cherokees
In: American Heritage
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: One People, Proud Cherokee, by Karen Coody Cooper -- Black/Cherokee Timeline -- 1. Seven Cherokee Nation Families, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 2. Tears on the Trail, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 3. Free Blacks in Indian Territory, by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and Mary Ann Littlefield -- 4. Finding Freedom in Foreign Lands: Henry Bibb and the Abraham Moore Family, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 5. The Fortunate and Unfortunate Children of Shoe Boots, by Tiya Miles -- 6. Stolen Away Aiky, by Celia E. Naylor -- 7. 115-Year-Old Part Negro-Part Cherokee Woman, with comments by Karen Coody Cooper -- 8. Cherokee Slave Revolt of 1842, by Art T. Burton -- 9. Murrell Home: What About the Slaves?, by Shirley Pettengill -- 10. Zachariah Foreman: "The Wealthiest Man…in the Cherokee Nation," by Karen Coody Cooper -- 11. Black Members of the Cherokee National Council, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 12. Outlaw Cherokee Bill versus Lawman Ike Rogers, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 13. Will Rogers's Childhood Mentors, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 14. The Colored High School of the Cherokee Nation, by T.L. Ballenger -- 15. Oilman, Educator, Pamphleteer: George F. Nave, by Mark A. Harrison -- 16. The New Negro's Attitude Toward His Government, by George F. Nave, from a 1917 pamphlet -- 17. Mary Walker Elliott: Who's Your Daddy, Where's Your Mama?, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 18. Civil War Veteran Corporal Allen Lynch, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 19. Lee Street Memories: Growing Up on Depot Hill, by Ty Wilson -- Appendix I. Black Cemeteries in the Cherokee Nation -- Appendix II. Historic Black Baptist Churches, by Joe Wilson and Karen Coody Cooper -- Appendix III. Race Demographics in Cherokee Nation -- Reading List -- Biographical Statements of Contributors -- How the Book Came to Be.