Indian justice
Subtitle: a Cherokee murder trial at Tahlequah in 1840
By: as reported by John Howard Payne ; edited by Grant Foreman ; foreword by Rennard Strickland.
Contributors: Foreman, Grant, 1869-1953.
Edition: Red River Books ed.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Norman [Okla.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Smith, Archilla, d. 1841 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; MacIntosh, John, d.1839.; Trials (Murder) -- Oklahoma -- Tahlequah.; Cherokee law.
Description: "In Indian Justice, Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die." "Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the New York Journal of Commerce in 1841."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.