Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi write by Katherine M. B. Osburn. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When the remaining Choctaws applied for their allotments, however, the government reneged, and the Choctaws were left dispossessed and impoverished. Thus begins the history of the Mississippi Choctaws as a distinct people. Despite overwhelming poverty and significant racial prejudice in the rural South, the Mississippi Choctaws managed, over the course of a century and a half, to maintain their ethnic identity, persuade the Office of Indian Affairs to provide them with services and lands, create a functioning tribal government, and establish a prosperous and stable reservation economy. The Choctaws’ struggle against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s is an overlooked story of the civil rights movement, and this study of white supremacist support for Choctaw tribalism considerably complicates our understanding of southern history. Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi traces the Choctaw’s remarkable tribal rebirth, attributing it to their sustained political and social activism.
After Removal
After Removal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Removal write by Samuel J. Wells. This book was released on 2010-12-01. After Removal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This informative study helps to complete the saga of the Choctaw by documenting the life and culture of those who escaped removal. It is an account that until now has been left largely untold. The Choctaw Indians, once one of the largest and most advanced tribes in North America, have mainly been studied as the first victims of removal during the Jacksonian era. After signing the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830, the great mass of the tribe—about 20,000 of perhaps 25,000—was resettled in what is present-day Oklahoma. What became of the thousands that remained? The history of the Choctaw remaining in Mississippi has been given only scant attention by scholars, and generally it has been forgotten by the public. As this new book points out, several thousand remained on individual land allotments or as itinerant farm workers and continued to follow old customs. Many of mixed blood abandoned their ancestral ways and were merged into the white community. Some faded into the wilderness. Despite many obstacles, the remnants of this Mississippi Choctaw society endured and in the modern era through federal legislation have been recognized as a society known as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918
Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918 write by Clara Sue Kidwell. This book was released on 1997-02-01. Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present-day Choctaw communities in central Mississippi are a tribute to the ability of the Indian people both to adapt to new situations and to find refuge against the outside world through their uniqueness. Clara Sue Kidwell, whose great-great-grandparents migrated from Mississippi to Indian Territory along the Trail of Tears in 1830, here tells the story of those Choctaws who chose not to move but to stay behind in Mississippi. As Kidwell shows, their story is closely interwoven with that of the missionaries who established the first missions in the area in 1818. While the U.S. government sought to “civilize” Indians through the agency of Christianity, many Choctaw tribal leaders in turn demanded education from Christian missionaries. The missionaries allied themselves with these leaders, mostly mixed-bloods; in so doing, the alienated themselves from the full-blood elements of the tribe and thus failed to achieve widespread Christian conversion and education. Their failure contributed to the growing arguments in Congress and by Mississippi citizens that the Choctaws should be move to the West and their territory opened to white settlement. The missionaries did establish literacy among the Choctaws, however, with ironic consequences. Although the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830 compelled the Choctaws to move west, its fourteenth article provided that those who wanted to remain in Mississippi could claim land as individuals and stay in the state as private citizens. The claims were largely denied, and those who remained were often driven from their lands by white buyers, yet the Choctaws maintained their communities by clustering around the few men who did get title to lands, by maintaining traditional customs, and by continuing to speak the Choctaw language. Now Christian missionaries offered the Indian communities a vehicle for survival rather than assimilation.
Information Sheet on the Mississippi Choctaw Indians
Information Sheet on the Mississippi Choctaw Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Sheet on the Mississippi Choctaw Indians write by Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi. Tribal Council. This book was released on 1975. Information Sheet on the Mississippi Choctaw Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Claims Against the Choctaw Indians Enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws
Claims Against the Choctaw Indians Enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claims Against the Choctaw Indians Enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws write by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs. This book was released on 1931. Claims Against the Choctaw Indians Enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
