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1909 Crazy Snake Rebellion... Creek People...
1909 Crazy Snake Rebellion... Creek People...
Item # 716287
March 29, 1909
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 29, 1909
* Crazy Snake Rebellion - Smoked Meat War
* Muskogee Oklahoma Creek People Indians
The front page has a nice banner headline: "INDIANS IN RETREAT; MILITIA PURSUES" with subhead: "CRAZY SNAKE DESERTERS FOLLOWERS AND FLEES" (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 10 pages, small library stamps within the masthead, some small binding holes along the spine, some tiny margin tears, generally nice.
AI notes: The Crazy Snake Rebellion of 1909 was a resistance movement led by Chitto Harjo, also known as Crazy Snake, a Muscogee (Creek) leader who opposed the U.S. government's efforts to dismantle tribal sovereignty through the Dawes and Curtis Acts, which divided communal Native lands into individual allotments and imposed federal authority. Harjo and his followers, known as the "Snakes," rejected U.S. citizenship, held secret tribal councils, enforced traditional Creek laws, and used direct action—including whipping tribal members who accepted allotments—to resist assimilation. Tensions peaked in 1909 when violent clashes broke out between the Snakes and local law enforcement in eastern Oklahoma, leading to arrests, skirmishes, and the eventual dispersal of the movement. Harjo vanished during the crackdown and was presumed dead, marking the end of one of the last armed Native American resistances in U.S. history and symbolizing the loss of Native political autonomy with the firm establishment of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.
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