The Choctaws in Oklahoma - 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 The Choctaws in Oklahoma write by Clara Sue Kidwell. This book was released on 2008-07-01. The Choctaws in Oklahoma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe's subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws' remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma - 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 Nation of Oklahoma write by Donovin Arleigh Sprague. This book was released on 2007. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choctaw are the largest tribe belonging to the branch of the Muskogean family that includes the Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole. According to oral history, the tribe originated from Nanih Waya, a sacred hill near present-day Noxapater, Mississippi. Nanih Waya means "productive or fruitful hill, or mountain." During one of their migrations, they carried a tree that would lean, and every day the people would travel in the direction the tree was leaning. They traveled east and south for sometime until the tree quit leaning, and the people stopped to make their home at this location, in present-day Mississippi. The people have made difficult transitions throughout their history. In 1830, the Choctaw who were removed by the United States from their southeastern U.S. homeland to Indian Territory became known as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic - 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 The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic write by Angie Debo. This book was released on 1961. The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Records the history of the Choctaw Indians through their political, social, and economic customs.
The Choctaws
The 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 The Choctaws write by Jesse O. McKee. This book was released on 1980-01-01. The Choctaws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Choctaw Music and Dance
Choctaw Music and Dance - 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 Music and Dance write by James Henri Howard. This book was released on 1997-02-01. Choctaw Music and Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Choctaws are among the largest and best-known Indian tribes originally of the Southeastern United States, but over the centuries they have become one of the most acculturated to white ways, known more for what they absorbed of white culture than for their own distinctive traditions. Since the removal of the greatest part of the tribe to Oklahoma in the 1830s, Euro-American acculturation has become especially dominant. Nevertheless, among the isolated group of Choctaws that remained in Mississippi after Removal and a few individuals in Oklahoma, the old tribal dances and songs have been preserved. This book discusses all aspects of the Choctaw dances and songs performed today by dance troupes in Mississippi and Oklahoma. It describes the social organization of the troupes, the construction and use of their musical instruments, and their costumes. Extensive historical information surveys the early literature on Choctaw music and dance, the divergent experiences of the Mississippi and Oklahoma Groups, and the recent movement toward cultural revival among traditionalists in both states. The choreography for each dance that survives in the Choctaw repertory is described in detail and illustrated by photographs. The book also contains an overview of Choctaw dance music, with a classification of the song and in-depth analyses of musical elements, form, and design. The structure of dance events is reconstructed here for the first time. Musical transcriptions of thirty songs are included. The authors, using a comparative approach, have focused on the relationship between contemporary performances in Oklahoma and Mississippi. Despite regional variations in performance practice, the Choctaws have sustained considerable continuity in their dance and music in this century, successfully resisting fierce pressure to assimilate and thereby lose all remaining vestiges of their culture. This is the first book-length study of Choctaw music and dance since 1943, with much new information on the dances. It will be welcomed by ethnomusicologists, dance ethnologists, students of Native American culture, anthropologists, folklorists, and anyone interested in American Indian dance.
