Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts

Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts

The Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts, housed at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, consists of material created and accumulated by Jack Kilpatrick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick, dating from the 1890s to the 1960s. The material, entirely in the Cherokee syllabary, documents vernacular literacy in the Cherokee language, the practice of traditional medicine, social aspects of Christian religion and church organizations, dates and circumstances of death, funerary practices, and other topics relating to the history and culture of the Oklahoma Cherokee in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Kilpatrick Collection is cataloged as WA MSS S-2707, and can be requested for research use at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. To see a full description and list of contents, view the catalog record in Yale's online catalog, Orbis.
228 of 1974 pages transcribed
11.550151975684% Completed
50% Transcribed

List on a small card, with numbers

Box 1, Folder 6
50% Transcribed

Autograph letter, signed, Braggs, OK, to Arch Wolf

Crawford, Ned
1929
Box 1, Folder 8
50% Transcribed

Letter regarding plans for Christmas, to Tsesini Awigadoga

Hidasgi, Meli
1938
Box 1, Folder 12
50% Transcribed

Genealogical notes or list of birth dates

after 1922
Box 1, Folder 13
50% Transcribed

Letter to "my brother" Jackson Standingdeer

1936 January 9
Box 1, Folder 16
50% Transcribed

Funeral notice for a child of Tse:ghwisi

1926 May 28
Box 1, Folder 17
50% Transcribed

Funeral notice for V:wo:di Adi:dha:sgi

1925 May 29
Box 1, Folder 19
50% Transcribed

Funeral notice for a child of I:gagha'la

1925 June 18
Box 1, Folder 20
50% Transcribed

Funeral notice for a child of Diyo:hli

1930 April 26
Box 1, Folder 21