June 23, 1865: Stand Watie Born
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Edward E. Dale and Gaston Litton, ed., Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty Years of Cherokee History as Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939).
Kenny A. Franks, Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1979).
Morris L. Wardell, A Political History of the Cherokee Nation, 1838-1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938).
Grace Steele Woodward, The Cherokees (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963).
Cottrell, Steve. Civil War in Indian Territory. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1998.
Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
Frank Cunningham, Brad Agnew. General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians. University of Oklahoma Press (September 15, 1998)
Oklahoma Historical Society’s Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WA040.html
Chronicles of Oklahoma. Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1921. SOME LETTERS OF GENERAL STAND WATIE. EDWARD E. DALE. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v001/v001p030.html
Chronicles of Oklahoma. Volume 1, No. 2. October, 1921. ADDITIONAL LETTERS OF GENERAL STAND WATIE. Edward E. Dale. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v001/v001p131.html
PBS American Experience “We Shall Remain.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
“Cherokee Indians.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3539&sug=y#
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June 23, 1865: Stande Watie Born Image Credits
Cherokee Spoliations - cover and Georgia Historical Society Record Spoliations, MS 927, several pages Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Cherokee Indians forced from National Geographic National Geographic, Corbis homelands illustration Images
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles at Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Battle of Pea Ridge - Stand Watie Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-01888
John Ridge portrait. Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3157
Major Ridge portrait. Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-24339
Lee Surrenders to Grant, Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Appomattox, 1865 Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-3054
Indian Territory 1887 Library of Congress Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Map of Oklahoma and Library of Congress Library of Congress, surrounding Indian Territory Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, LC-USZ62-96519
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June 23, 1865: Stande Watie Born Image Credits
Memorial and Protest of the Georgia Historical Society Memorial and protest of the Chreokee Nation against Treaty Cherokee Nation, E99.C5 C454 at new Echota. 1836, Rare Pamphlet Collection, Georgia Historical Society
Surrender of General Stand Watie The Oklahoma State Senate Surrender of General Stand Historical Preservation Fund Watie, Dennis Parker, Courtesy of The Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc
General Stand Watie muster roll National Archive and Records National Archive and Records Administration Administration, M258
General Stand Watie USPS USPS Courtesy of the United States postage stamp Postal Service
Surrender of General Lee at Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints and Appomattox Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-132504
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