Choctaw Nation: Difference between revisions

The Choctaw Tribe is one of the [[Five Civilized Tribes|Five Civilized Tribes]]  

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma<br>P.O. Box 1210<br>Durant, OK 74702-1210<br>Phone: 1.800.522.6170  

*[http://www.choctawnation.com/ Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma] Official Website

Early allies with the French  

Inter tribal conflict with the Creek and [[Chickasaw Indians|Chickasaw]].&nbsp;  

==== Brief Timeline  ====

Frederick Webb Hodge, in his [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/choctaw/chostawhist.htm Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico], gave a more complete history of the&nbsp;Choctaw &nbsp;tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/mississippi/choctawindianhist.htm The Indian Tribes of North America].  

Oklahoma: Latimer and Pushmataha counties  

Mississippi: Neshoba, Newton, Leake, Scott, Jones, Attala, Kemper, Winston counties  

Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma)  

[[Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi|Mississippi Band]]  

*'''1830''' Armstrong Roll [http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com]  

*'''1855''' Cooper Roll of Easter Choctaw [http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com]&nbsp; Families living East of the Mississippi River in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama.&nbsp; (roll contains: names of heads of families, place of residence, and numbers of men, women, and children in families)

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*[[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records for Five U.S. Indian Tribes|Dawes Commission Enrollment&nbsp;Records]]

*'''1847''' Muster Roll of Big Black River Band (arrived at Fort Coffee)&nbsp;[http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  

*'''1847''' Ha Cubbees Band Muster Roll&nbsp; (arrived at Fort Coffee) [http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com]

*&nbsp;[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/cho0011.htm 1783] January 3, at Hopewell&nbsp;  

'''Vital Records'''  

In 1936, the Oklahoma Historical Society and University of Oklahoma requested a writer's project grant from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in which interviews would be conducted with early settlers in Oklahoma who had lived on Indian land. More than 100 writers conducted over 11,000 interviews and were asked to "call upon early settlers and (record) the story of the migration to Oklahoma and their early life here."<ref>.” Blackburn, Bob L. "Battle Cry for History: The First Century of the Oklahoma Historical Society." n.d. Oklahoma Historical Society. 5 Oct. 1998.</ref> The [http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/ University of Oklahoma Western History Collection] has digitized the Indian Pioneer Papers which consists of approximately 80,000 indexed entries arranged alphabetically by personal name, place name, or subject. <ref>The University of Oklahoma Western History Collections http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/</ref> An index to the Indian Pioneer Papers may also be found at [http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ OkGenWeb Oklahoma Genealogy.] A separate index of Indians interviewed, including the Choctaw, may be viewed at: [http://goodoowah.50megs.com/indpio/ “Indians in the Indian Pioneer Papers”] Some of the surnames from the Choctaw tribe found in the collection are: Anderson, Baker, Beam (Stevens), Bond, Homer/Homma (Latimer), Jones (Choate), Kemp, Labor (Airington), Moore, Miashintubbee.  

== Important Web Sites  ==

*[http://www.choctawnation.com/ Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma] Official Website

==== Bibliography  ====