The Cherokee Courtroom Shoot-out, also called the Goingsnake Massacre, was a gunfight that occurred during a trial in the Cherokee court system on April 15, 1872, in the Goingsnake District of the Cherokee Nation in present-day Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Also called the Proctor-Beck Fight, this bloody scrimmage was the result of a jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. government and the Cherokee court system.
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