Zeke Proctor returned to live Ezekial "Zeke" Proctor (Cherokee) was being tried for fatally shooting Polly Beck (Cherokee) and wounding her husband Jim Kesterson, who was white. The trial was highly charged for both personal and political reasons.
Ezekiel was born 4 Cherokee Nation citizen Ezekial “Zeke” Proctor was born July 4, , in Georgia in the old Cherokee Nation. He fought with the Union during the American Civil War. His trial for shooting and killing Polly Beck in set off a jurisdictional battle between the CN and the United States.
Ezekiel was born 4 July On trial for murder in April , the imposing Cherokee Zeke Proctor and his supporters took on the rival Beck family and a federal posse in a gunfight in front of Judge Blackhaw Sixkiller.
Steele, Phillip W. ; Christie, Ned, The trouble began when a Cherokee Indian named Ezekial “Zeke” Proctor shot a white American man named Jim Kesterson (or Chesterson) in the head, seriously wounding him, before turning his gun on Kesterson’s wife, Polly Beck, who was a Cherokee woman, and killing her.
Summary: Biographies of Zeke After a quick hearing and deliberation, the jury acquitted Proctor in the shooting of Polly. Proctor headed to the hinterlands of the Indian Territory—reportedly accompanied by 50 heavily armed Cherokees. Others from the erstwhile court also went into hiding until things had cooled off.
Cherokee Nation citizen Ezekial “Zeke” Proctor. Ezekiel “Zeke” Proctor was a Cherokee Indian, but he had a white father[3]. He was originally from Georgia, but we do not know the sequence of events that brought him to the Indian Territory. Zeke was a member of the Keetoowah Nighthawk community, a group of Cherokee striving to maintain their tribal values and customs.
Details ; Title. The Kelley Agnew, winner of the National History Day Competition of , provides a vivid portrait of the situation and the two men who led the groups involved, Ezekial Proctor and White Sut Beck. Article illustrates the events leading up to the tragedy at Goingsnake courthouse, a shootout between a group of Cherokees and a group of U.S. marshals.
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The Last Cherokee Warriors: Zeke Proctor, Ned Christie., Pelican Publishing Company, pages; a book classified by Google as "juvenile fiction". (Steele claimed to have firsthand observations from the son of Christie's half-brother, but the boy was only two in , when Christie was killed.) [ 1 ].