Collected by Charley B. Davis For Mary C. Parler Transcribed by Frances Majors
Fred High talking High, Arkansas November 24, 1958
Reel 279, Item 9
Now I’ll sing you about an Indian. The Indians used to live here. I've got more than a hundred Indian kinfolks in Oklahoma. They're of the Cherokee tribe, but they're not full bloods, none of them ain't; because there's an Indian come in here by the name of Jones and married my mother's sister. And they had one girl, and they went out there, and they've got a lot of kinfolks there. And you know how they done when they went to dividing the land up—they said they had too much land. And they put in a law like this. For ten years, all that was borned they would get them a right in the territory out there, it was then, but now it's the state of Oklahoma. It come in fifty years ago. At Oklahoma City, where I just now told you about, they had lots of talking about how the thing went, you know. Well now then, they done this-a way. I went out there to see my kinfolk........
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