Choctaw Resurgence In Mississippi

Author : Katherine M. B. Osburn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803273894

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Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi by Katherine M. B. Osburn Pdf

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.

Author : Samuel J. Wells,Roseanna Tubby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617030840

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After Removal by Samuel J. Wells,Roseanna Tubby Pdf

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.

Author : Clara Sue Kidwell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080612914X

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Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918 by Clara Sue Kidwell Pdf

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.

Author : Thelma V. Bounds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : UCAL:B4102012

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The Story of the Mississippi Choctaws by Thelma V. Bounds Pdf

Author : Jesse O. McKee,Ada Elizabeth Deer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : 9781438103709

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The Choctaw by Jesse O. McKee,Ada Elizabeth Deer Pdf

Originally residing in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the Choctaws were one of the first Native American tribes forcibly removed to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma).

Author : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045386310

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Claims Against the Choctaw Indians Enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045386294

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Claims of Mississippi Choctaws by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Jesse O. McKee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1617034932

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The Choctaws by Jesse O. McKee Pdf

Author : James Taylor Carson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : OCLC:35708982

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Searching for the Bright Path by James Taylor Carson Pdf

Author : Mikaëla M. Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190619466

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Who Belongs? by Mikaëla M. Adams Pdf

Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the South. Indians who remained in the South following removal became a marginalized and anomalous people in an emerging biracial world. Despite the economic hardships and assimilationist pressures they faced, they insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and rejected Euro-American efforts to reduce them to another racial minority, especially in the face of Jim Crow segregation. Drawing upon their cultural traditions, kinship patterns, and evolving needs to protect their land, resources, and identity from outsiders, southern Indians constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria, in part by manipulating racial categories - like blood quantum - that were not traditional elements of indigenous cultures. Mika�la M. Adams investigates how six southern tribes-the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida-decided who belonged. By focusing on the rights and resources at stake, the effects of state and federal recognition, the influence of kinship systems and racial ideologies, and the process of creating official tribal rolls, Adams reveals how Indians established legal identities. Through examining the nineteenth and twentieth century histories of these Southern tribes, Who Belongs? quashes the notion of an essential "Indian" and showcases the constantly-evolving process of defining tribal citizenship.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : LOC:00107420149

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Choctaw Indians of Mississippi by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Ted Ownby,Charles Reagan Wilson,Ann J. Abadie,Odie Lindsey,James G. Thomas Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 2548 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496811578

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The Mississippi Encyclopedia by Ted Ownby,Charles Reagan Wilson,Ann J. Abadie,Odie Lindsey,James G. Thomas Jr. Pdf

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Author : Carolyn Keller Reeves
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496800954

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The Choctaw before Removal by Carolyn Keller Reeves Pdf

With essays by William Brescia Jr., Robert B. Ferguson, Patricia K. Galloway, John D. W. Guice, Grayson Noley, Carolyn Keller Reeves, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, and Samuel J. Wells This book focuses upon Choctaw history prior to 1830, when the tribe forfeited territorial claims and was removed from native lands in Mississippi. The included essays emphasize Choctaw anthropology, beliefs, and experience with the US government prior to the tribe's removal to Oklahoma. Attention is focused upon the ways in which European groups, frontiersmen, and state and federal officials affected the Choctaw ideology. This collection shows the relationship among the various forces that combined to erode the culture, economy, and political structure of the Choctaw.

Author : Christian Pinnen,Charles Weeks
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496832900

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Colonial Mississippi by Christian Pinnen,Charles Weeks Pdf

Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.

Author : Clara Sue Kidwell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806140062

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The Choctaws in Oklahoma by Clara Sue Kidwell Pdf

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.