Frankly Speaking

In the fall of 1830, James J. Trott, a Methodist missionary to the Cherokee Indians in Georgia, was immersed into Christ at Overall's Cr...

This post summarizes and makes a few observations about Alexander Campbell's address to the students at Henry Female Seminary in Newca...

The map above is Indian Territory, 1885. (Click on the map for a much larger view). The Chickasaw Nation was located in what is now South-...

One idea I have is to compare the brief careers of three Christian colleges: El Meta Christian College (later, El Meta Bond College, 1889-...

The following article appeared in a Borger, Texas newspaper, August 4, 1964. I copied it from a transcript found in Planning the Route: Harm...

The expression Five Civilized Tribes emerged during the mid-nineteenth century. It referred to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and...

On Highway 77 in Davis, Oklahoma Back on June 2nd, Michele and I were traveling through Oklahoma on our way to Nashville, site of the an...

Passages like the Great Commission in Matthew and the Macedonian Call in Acts have long compelled members of the Churches of Christ to condu...

The treaty status of the Five Civilized Tribes and a few other tribal groups exempted them from the requirements of the Dawes Severalty Act ...

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 opened a tragic new chapter in the history of Native America. This federal legislation sought to end triba...

At the insistence of the federal government, the treaty of 1866 provided for railroads through Indian Territory, one running north and south...

In the decade following the Civil War, Chickasaw students capable of high-school level work were sent to academies outside their homeland. T...