While weeding our Early American almanac collection, we located a copy of Cherokee Almanac 1857 published at Park Hill by Mission Press, in both English and what we assume is Cherokee. Realizing it should be in a collection with other similar items, we contacted the Cherokee National Historical Society in Tahlequah, OK. Tom Mooney, the Archivist there, was happy to accept the donation of this almanac.
In his email to us, Tom described one of the collections at the Historical Society: "One of our more unusual collections here is nearly 600 newspapers which each carry some article about the Cherokee Indians. Most of these papers are from the east and several originate in Boston." He also offered us an index of this collection which he hopes to see digitized using a digital library grant administered through the Cherokee Nation.
If you are interested in Cherokee Nation history, Tom can be reached at tom-mooney@cherokee.org or 918-456-6007 x6152.
-Claudette
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