Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.

In January 1881, a new student named Minnie Atkins arrived at Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

I was not expecting to find lost treasure as I shifted through a pile of paperwork. But there was one thing that caught my eye: a series of

Tommy was a Muscogee boy whose land was worth many millions of dollars in 1914. The only problem was that he may have never existed.