Joseph K. Dixon to Woodrow Wilson
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3 WU JM 141 NL
805 am 11th
Muskogee, Okla.,
June 10, 1913.
The President,
Washington, DC
Your address to all the tribes of North American Indians in the United States was delivered to-day to the Cherokees one hundred years after the address of President Jefferson to this historic tribe. The address was received with undoubted enthusiasm followed by the hoisting of the American flag to the native song of Cherokee singers, followed again by the National air The Star Spangled Banner, a historic and significant event because of the relinquishment tomorrow of their capitol to the State of Oklahoma and the cession of their last land title as a tribe Cherokee orders pledged their loyalty to the flag and rely with confidence upon your gracious words. A flag was left flying under June skies and the fair winds of the west and thus was notably inaugurated the Rodman Wannamaker expedition of citizenship to the North American Indians.
Joseph K. Dixon.