American Indian chief. Correspondence (1879–1897); annual messages (1879–1882); speeches (1879–1887); an autobiography (1880); proclamations (1879–1885); and other papers (1879–1922) relating to political matters in which Bushyhead was involved as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, 1879–1887, and as a representative to the Dawes Commission; and papers relating to the controversies growing out of the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association’s operations.