BADMAN CHEROKEE BILL

(present-day Oklahoma), most of us naturally think of Indians first. Even if we know little about such indigenous tribes as the Caddo, Wichita and Kichai, many of us know 19th-century Indian Territory became home to the transplanted Southeastern people known as the Five Civilized Tribes—Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole. Starting in 1829 the self-taught Cherokee linguist Sequoyah, who created the syllabary that made reading and writing in his