Culture And Customs Of The Choctaw Indians

Author : Donna L. Akers
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Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians by Donna L. Akers Pdf

This complete overview of the Choctaw people, from ancient times to the present, includes sections on history, cuisine, music and dance, current issues, oral traditions and language, social relationships, and traditional world view. Endeavoring to replace stereotypical images with a more accurate understanding of Native Americans, Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians explores the traditional lives of the Choctaw people, their history and oppression by the dominant society, and their struggles to maintain a unique identity in the face of overwhelming pressures to assimilate. The book begins with a historical overview of traditional Choctaw life, belief systems, social customs, and traditions. Moving to contemporary Choctaw communities, it looks at the modern-day Choctaw and the important issues they face. Separate chapters cover cuisine, social and kinship systems, oral traditions, arts, music, and dance, as well as current issues and tribal politics. Readers will see how many Choctaw people blend traditional beliefs with participation in and knowledge of the dominant society and economy, while continuing to speak and teach the Choctaw language and traditions in homes, churches, and schools.

Author : Donna L. Akers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313364020

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Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians by Donna L. Akers Pdf

This complete overview of the Choctaw people, from ancient times to the present, includes sections on history, cuisine, music and dance, current issues, oral traditions and language, social relationships, and traditional world view. Endeavoring to replace stereotypical images with a more accurate understanding of Native Americans, Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians explores the traditional lives of the Choctaw people, their history and oppression by the dominant society, and their struggles to maintain a unique identity in the face of overwhelming pressures to assimilate. The book begins with a historical overview of traditional Choctaw life, belief systems, social customs, and traditions. Moving to contemporary Choctaw communities, it looks at the modern-day Choctaw and the important issues they face. Separate chapters cover cuisine, social and kinship systems, oral traditions, arts, music, and dance, as well as current issues and tribal politics. Readers will see how many Choctaw people blend traditional beliefs with participation in and knowledge of the dominant society and economy, while continuing to speak and teach the Choctaw language and traditions in homes, churches, and schools.

Author : Donna L. Akers
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798400632778

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Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians by Donna L. Akers Pdf

This modern study of the Iran-Iraq War utilizes newly available primary materials to analyze American policy towards the war and question the veracity of the United States' claims of strict neutrality. The Iran-Iraq War lasted from September 1980 to August 1988, dominating the landscape of the Middle East and polarizing many of the world's nations for nearly a decade. This new work analyzes the United States' policy towards this vicious and extremely costly war, and questions the veracity of America's claims of strict neutrality. The contents of Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence, and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 can be broken down into five sections: the conflict's origins, the Carter administration's response to the war, the Reagan administration's actions, changes to American policy during the Iran-Contra Affair, and the collapse of neutrality in the final two years of the war. The author boldly refutes the arguments of other authors about the war, and provides timely and relevant insights regarding American-Iraqi relations in light of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Author : Ada Quinlivan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508141105

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Choctaw by Ada Quinlivan Pdf

This book introduces readers to the Choctaw tribe, a Native American group originally from the Southeastern United States. This text discusses traditional clothing, diet, customs, and housing of the Choctaw tribe, as well as how their way of life changed after interactions with European peoples. This book also covers what the Choctaw tribe is like today, including where they live and how they keep their past alive. Readers will find a rich learning experience through engaging text and color photographs. This book supports history curricula, both regional and national.

Author : Jesse O. McKee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1617034932

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The Choctaws by Jesse O. McKee Pdf

Author : Kennith H. York
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1961526301

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Choctaw Nationalism by Kennith H. York Pdf

The Rich Culture and History of the Choctaw Tribe - and the Remarkable Mississippi Band...The Choctaw Indians are one of the oldest tribes in the Americas, dating from the era when the woolly mammoth roamed the Southeast. They are the native inhabitants of the area now comprising the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians still continues to speak their own language, maintain their unique culture, and live on their indigenous land in Mississippi. In this beautifully researched book, Dr. Kennith York draws upon oral traditions, historical documents, and accounts of observers and scholars to illuminate the prehistory, culture, language, and history of the Chahta Okla People. Join this resilient, creative, and memorable band as they survive the Spanish terrorist attack of 1540, the French and British invasion of the 1700s, the US Government Policy of Indian Removal of 1830, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s, and the current economic recession, which threatens the survival of 10,300 Choctaws. Recognized as community leaders in community and economic development through business, education, health care, gaming, and tourism, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians stand out as a shining example of a people striving to embrace their heritage while working within the constraints placed upon them by the US government. This valuable book provides an update to John Swanton's work on the Choctaw Indians.

Author : John Reed 1873-1958 Swanton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019457015

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Early Account of the Choctaw Indians by John Reed 1873-1958 Swanton Pdf

This book is a historical account of the Choctaw Indians, a Native American tribe that lived in the southeastern United States. It covers the period from the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century and provides a valuable source of information on the culture, history, and traditions of the Choctaw people. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in Native American history or the history of the American South. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John R. Swanton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817311094

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Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians by John R. Swanton Pdf

Long considered the undisputed authority on the Indians of the southern United States, anthropologist John Swanton published this history as the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Bulletin 103 in 1931. Swanton's descriptions are drawn from earlier records—including those of DuPratz and Romans—and from Choctaw informants. His long association with the Choctaws is evident in the thorough detailing of their customs and way of life and in his sensitivity to the presentation of their native culture. Included are descriptions of such subjects as clans, division of labor between sexes, games, religion, war customs, and burial rites. The Choctaws were, in general, peaceful farmers living in Mississippi and southwestern Alabama until they were moved to Oklahoma in successive waves beginning in 1830, after the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. This edition includes a new foreword by Kenneth Carleton placing Swanton's work in the context of his times. The continued value of Swanton's original research makes Source Material the most comprehensive book ever published on the Choctaw people.

Author : Henry Clark Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1104282674

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Life Among the Choctaw Indians and Sketches of the Southwest by Henry Clark Benson Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Donna L. Akers
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780870138836

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Living in the Land of Death by Donna L. Akers Pdf

With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation, cholera, and smallpox. Living in the Land of the Dead depicts the story of Choctaw survival, and the evolution of the Choctaw people in their new environment. Culturally, over time, their adaptation was one of homesteads and agriculture, eventually making them self-sufficient in the rich new lands of Indian Territory. Along the Red River and other major waterways several Choctaw families of mixed heritage built plantations, and imported large crews of slave labor to work cotton fields. They developed a sub-economy based on interaction with the world market. However, the vast majority of Choctaws continued with their traditional subsistence economy that was easily adapted to their new environment. The immigrant Choctaws did not, however, move into land that was vacant. The U.S. government, through many questionable and some outright corrupt extralegal maneuvers, chose to believe it had gained title through negotiations with some of the peoples whose homelands and hunting grounds formed Indian Territory. Many of these indigenous peoples reacted furiously to the incursion of the Choctaws onto their rightful lands. They threatened and attacked the Choctaws and other immigrant Indian Nations for years. Intruding on others’ rightful homelands, the farming-based Choctaws, through occupation and economics, disrupted the traditional hunting economy practiced by the Southern Plains Indians, and contributed to the demise of the Plains ways of life.

Author : John R. Swanton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1528566874

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Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians (Classic Reprint) by John R. Swanton Pdf

Excerpt from Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians Although a certain political centralization had been attained it was not so absolute as to have become spectacular or oppressive, and therefore interesting to white men. There were no complicated re ligious ceremonials to arrest the attention of the foreigner and the intelligence of the native, and it is the general testimony that the Choctaw were less inclined to display their superiority to other people by trying to kill them than is usual even in more civilized societies. The significant things about them are told us in a few short sentences: That they had less territory than any of their neigh bors but raised so much corn that they sent it to some of these others in trade, that their beliefs and customs were simple, and that they seldom left their country to fight but when attacked defended them selves with dauntless bravery. In other words, the aboriginal Choc taw seem to have enjoyed the enviable position of being just folks, uncontaminated with the idea that they existed for the sake of a political, religious, or military organization. And apparently, like the meek and the Chinese and Hindoos, they were in process of in heriting the earth by gradual extension of their settlements because none of their neighbors could compete with them economically. Absence of pronounced native institutions made it easy for them to take up with foreign customs and usages, so that they soon distanced all other of the Five Civilized Tribes except the Cherokee, who in many ways resembled them, and became with great rapidity poor subjects for ethnological study but successful members of the Ameri can Nation. It is generally testified that the Creeks and Seminole, who had the most highly developed native institutions, were the Slowest to become assimilated into the new political and social organ ism which was introduced from Europe. The Chickasaw come next and the Cherokee and Choctaw adapted themselves most rapidly of all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Elsie Clews Parsons
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148137

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North American Indian Life by Elsie Clews Parsons Pdf

DIV27 fictionalized essays by noted anthropologists examine religion, customs, government, additional facets of life among the Winnebago, Crow, Zuni, Eskimo, other tribes. /div

Author : David I. Bushnell
Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1613423039

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The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb by David I. Bushnell Pdf

This is a short, but detailed history of the life, culture and customs of the Choctaw Tribe of Bayou Lacomb Louisiana. Photographic reproduction of the 1909 edition.

Author : Donna L. Akers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : UCR:31210010605879

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Living in the Land of Death by Donna L. Akers Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616139025

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Choctaw by Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh Pdf

Easy-to-read text and colorful illustrations and photos teach readers about Choctaw history, traditions, and modern life. This book describes society and family structure, hunting, fishing, and gathering methods, and ceremonies and rituals. Readers will learn about Choctaw homes, clothing, and crafts such as basketry. A traditional myth is included, as is a description of famous Choctaw leader Pushmataha. Wars, weapons, and contact with Europeans are discussed. Topics including European influence, land rights, the formation of reservations, and federal recognition are also addressed. In addition, modern Choctaw culture and still-celebrated traditions are described. Choctaw homelands are illustrated with a detailed map of the United States. Bold glossary terms and an index accompany engaging text. This book is written and illustrated by Native Americans, providing authentic perspectives of the Choctaw.