The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw RepublicHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to what is now Oklahoma and whose subsequent efforts from the Civil War to the close of the century to maintain an autonomous government and institutions form a distinctive and arresting chapter in the history of the West. While the political, social, and economic customs of the Choctaws were closely circumscribed, the thread of Choctaw history was at all times closely interwoven witht he larger fabric of American history as a whole. Choctaw law was a curious combination of ancient tribal custom and Anglo-American legal practice; Choctaw churches and schools were copied almost wholly from the white man’s society; and Choctaw economic institutions represented an attempt to adjust the customs of tribal control of the land to the white system of individual ownership. |
Contents
THE PRIMITIVE CHOCTAWS | 1 |
MAPS | 20 |
THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN | 24 |
LIFE IN THE New Land | 58 |
BALL PLAY DANCE CELEBRATED AT SKULLYVILLE 1834 | 60 |
CHOCTAW LANDS IN THE EAST On page 35 325 | 72 |
THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION | 80 |
PETER P PITCHLYNN PRINCIPAL CHIEF 186466 | 92 |
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE CHOCTAW NATION | 149 |
DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES ABOUT 1885 | 151 |
COLEMAN COLE PRINCIPAL CHIEF 187478 | 156 |
SAMUEL GARLAND PRINCIPAL CHIEF 186264 | 172 |
CRIME AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE | 175 |
WILSON N JONES PRINCIPAL CHIEF 189094 | 189 |
RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES | 194 |
ISAAC GARVIN PRINCIPAL CHIEF 187880 | 204 |
CHOCTAW LAND Patent Granted BY PRESIDENT TYLER | 108 |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 110 |
TOWNS OF THE CHOCTAW NATION ABOUT 1872 | 119 |
ALLEN WRIGHT PRINCIPAL CHIEF 186670 | 124 |
RAILROADS OF THE CHOCTAW NATION 1906 | 126 |
THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC FINANCE | 132 |
B F SMALLWOOD PRINCIPAL CHIEF 188890 | 140 |