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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
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Name: George Looney
Post Office: , Oklahoma
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Vol. 33, p. 379

...quite a prominent man who wanted things to stay as they had been in the past. He didn’t understand it would be a benefit to his people, who would have their own business to transact, didn’t observe deep enough but just saw the bright side he had been accustomed to.

GREEN PEACH WAR

Isparhedchar was like Crazy Snake and Sam Chocota was for allotment and that was the cause of that war.

CORNELIUS PERRYMAN AND CHIEF PORTER

I knew Cornelius PERRYMAN and would go to see him, five miles west of Red Fork. He was a big fleshy man.  He and Porter were against allotment as for the Osages. The Osages owned the land "plow depth" individually but all under that belonged to the whole tribe. Perryman said each man should own the land deep enough to be buried and to have a water well. He was a big man and couldn't be buried and covered up at plow depth.

I like allotment but would rather have had it like the Curtis Bill, then there wouldn’t have been a few rich and a lot of poor Creek Indians. All would have had the same wealth, which would have been right.....  

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Joan Case <lcase@manti.com> 02-1999.