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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Laws of the Cherokee Nation adopted by the Council

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03162 Author/Creator: Place Written: Tahlequah, C.N. [Ok.] Type: Book Date: 1852 Pagination: 179, 248 p. 18.2 x 12.5 cm Order a Copy

The book contains the Constitutions of 1827 and 1839, a complete compilation of the acts and resolution from 1808, and the annual session of 1851, with the laws of the Western Cherokee or Old Settlers. Hargrett, Oklahoma Imprints 152; Hargrett, Constitutions and Laws of the American Indian 18.

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