Indian justice
Subtitle: a Cherokee murder trial at Tahlequah in 1840
By: as reported by John Howard Payne ; edited with introduction and footnotes by Grant Foreman.
Contributors: Foreman, Grant, 1869-1953.
Series: Native American legal materials collection -- title 3205.
Publisher: Harlow
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Oklahoma City
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Smith, Archilla, -- d. 1841 -- Trials, litigation, etc; MacIntosh, John, -- d. 1839; Cherokee law; Trials (Murder) -- Oklahoma -- Tahlequah
Description: From dust jacket: "Archilla Smith, signer of the Cherokee Treaty of New Echota under which the Cherokees were moved to the West, in 1840 slew John McIntosh with a knife, and was arrested and tried for the crime under the Cherokee Constitution which had been adopted a year earlier. In the trial, which took place at Tahlequah, Stand Watie, later Confederate general and war chief of the Cherokees during the Civil War, defended Smith, and Jesse Bushyhead, perhaps the best beloved of the early Cherokees, was the judge during the latter part of the trial, and pronounced sentence upon Smith. The proceeding occurred under the shadow of the famous Cherokee political assassinations of 1839, and was electric with Cherokee party politics. The report of this trial, made in the minutest detail by John Howard Payne, present among the Cherokees as the guest of Chief John Ross, constitutes one of the most remarkable documents in all literature applicable to Oklahoma."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Microfiche. Honolulu : Law Library Microform Consortium, 1990. 2 microfiches : negative. (Nat. Amer. leg. mat. coll. ; title 3205).