Nov 1929 The American Indian Magazine 

This is the August 1929 issue of The American Indian, the Official Publication of the Society of Oklahoma Indians, Vol 3, #11. It features Miss Wilma Hackey, of Osage descent.  This rare magazine was published in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Table of contents:

Washington Ordered Extermination of the Six Nations

Tarahumaris Indians of Mexico Are Champion Runners

Legend of Toccoa Falls - the Mystic Suicide of Lovers (Cherokee legend set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia)

Editorial

Poetry (includes The Covered Wagon by Lena Whittaker Blakeney, Tears My Heart Has Shed by Hala Jean Hammond, Trailing Arbutus by Annette M. Lingelbach, Samples by Anne Elizabeth Ford, The Legend of Witch Hill by Stella Knight Ruess, Dead Lover Returning by Isobel Stone

Lenapes Began to Form Defense Against the Towakos

Tukabachi Was Capital Upper Creek Nation, 1686-1836

Samuel Kirkland Experienced Difficulties With Advisors

Proper Classification of Indian Tribes of North America


Also featured inside:  

Introducing Miss Mackey (cover subject) "daughter of Joseph Mackey, deceased, member of a very prominent Osage Indian family.  She is the grand-daughter of the late Giles Flippin, who just prior to his death, was rated as one of the largest land and cattle dealers in the Lone Star state, residing at Henryetta, Texas.  Miss Mackey is a prominent member of the younger set of Tulsa.  She attended Conway Broun and Monte Cassino, a select school for girls."  NOT IN MAGAZINE--Mackey was born in 1913.  She married Hugh Balster, and passed away in 2001.

The Apache Kid (Mark Kettleson of Arizona)

The Sullivan Campaign

Restore Old Indian Fort (Fort Atkinson, Iowa)

Children Hear Indian (school children of Hudson Falls, NY hear lecture by A. J. Freeman, Iroquois)

Progressive Cherokee (Jack Holt of Kansas City)

Tulsa State Fair

Indian Legend (of St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota)


Issue is approximately 10” x 13.5” and has 16 pages (not including cover).


Condition: Cover torn at top and bottom at binding, chipping and small holes, age discoloration, 1/4" tear at bottom of every page (see closeup photos for examples)


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