Record #:

29116

Author(s):

Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick

Abstract:

The article presents two notices from 1868 written by Will Thomas conveying his instructions to Cherokee leaders in Qualla. Thomas owned a trading post at Qualla. The notices were recently discovered in the Bureau of American Ethnology archives and illustrate how Thomas carried out written communication with Cherokee leaders.

Source:

Southern Indian Studies (NoCar E 78.S55 S6), Vol. 14 Issue , Oct 1962, p27-28

Subject(s):

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Language, Writing; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Relations with whites