The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1961 - History - 314 pages

Here 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.

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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
SOCIETY IN THE CHOCTAW NATION
221
TOWNS ROADS AND RAILROADS ABOUT 1887
224
THE SURRENDER TO THE UNITED STATES
245
THE DISSOLUTION OF TRIBAL INTERESTS
269
BIBLIOGRAPHY
291
INDEX
301
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Angie Debo was reared in a pioneer community, at Marshall, Oklahoma, where it has been her privilege to know from childhood the folkways of the Indians and the traditions of the western settlers. A member of her community high school's first graduating class, she later attended the University of Oklahoma, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and took her B.A. and later her Ph.D. degree; she received her master's degree from the University of Chicago. Her education was combined with intervals of teaching in country schools, starting at the age of sixteen.Miss Debo's distinguished reputation as a regional scholar has been enhanced by her book, The Rise and. Fall of the Choctaw Republic, which won the John H. Dunning prize of the American Historical Society for the best book submitted in the field of United States history in 1934, and for her later, book, And Still the Waters Run. She has been a teacher in schools and colleges both in Oklahoma and Texas and was curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. More recently she has been state director of the Federal Writers' Project in Oklahoma, in which capacity she edited Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State for the American Guide Series.

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