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- ↑ La Vere, David. Contrary Neighbors:Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory. 2000. University of Oklahoma Press. Available on Google Books. Accessed January 3, 2016.
- ↑ Gibson, Arrell Morgan (1981). Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries (2nd ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8061-1758-4 . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ↑ Alan C. Downs. ""Camp Napoleon Council," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Accessed August 23, 2015.
- ↑ Perry, Dan W. "A Foreordained Commonwealth" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine , Chronicles of Oklahoma 14:1 (March 1936) 22-48 (retrieved February 5, 2017)