Description: Indian Justice. A Cherokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840. As reported by John Howard Payne. Ed. with introduction and footnotes by Grant Foreman. Red cloth hardcover, not issued w/ dj, facsimile reprint of the 1934 edition in 1962, 112 pages. Very good condition, former owners name on front endpapers. " Grant Foremen presents John Howard Payne's first- hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die. Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the New York Journal of Commerce in 1841". Shipping weight just over 1 pound.
Price: 27.95 USD
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Tribal Affiliation: Cherokee
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Culture: Native American: US
