Guarding the Cherokee "millions," and the pay room
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content: OPPS NEG.1063 F 3
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: 1 Photograph (5x7 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Photographs
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content: The Cherokee payment of 6,640,000 dollars of the money paid by the U.S. for the Cherokee Strip began at Tahlequah, June 4th. [year-- ?] The reverse picture represents the guards on duty during the 6 days payment at Fort Gibson, beginning on July 9. The payment was made in the old barracks building of the Fort, in the second story of the building, and 50 well armed Cherokees stood guard day and night over the money. The picture shows a part of the guards, and in the room back of them is more than one million dollars, and on the pay grounds in front of them is not less than 10,000 people of all kinds. There was never before congregated so much sin, vice and desperate characters. During the whole three months of the payment there were no outlaws so bold as to undertake to hold up the Cherokee Millions. -- Description supplied by Grant Foreman October 10, 1934.