Cherokee Nation asks for artifacts

June 26, 2009 08:44 am

— WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Cherokee Nation officials in Oklahoma are asking for people with artifacts relating to the Cherokee Nation to return them for use in a museum.
Travis Owens of the Cherokee National Cultural Tourism office in Tahlequah, Okla., says the tribe is targeting Oklahoma’s border states, where there are high concentrations of Cherokee citizens.
The Cherokee Nation is looking for items that have significance to the Cherokee National Supreme Court Building and would have been used from about 1844 to 1907. Those items could be court cases, personal artifacts of justices, photographs or day-to-day items indigenous to the Cherokee People.
The artifacts will be used to showcase the soon-to-be-reopened Cherokee National Supreme Court Building Museum in Tahlequah.