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  2. Jeffrey Gibson - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey A. Gibson was born on March 31, 1972, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [1] [4] His mother is Georgia Wilson Gibson (Cherokee Nation). [8]His father was a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, as was his paternal grandfather Homer Gibson, from Conehatta, Mississippi. [9]

  3. Choctaw mythology - Wikipedia

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    Today the Choctaw have three federally recognized tribes: the largest is the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, next is the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, made up of descendants of individuals who did not remove in the 1830s, and the smallest is the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, located in Louisiana. Also, the Choctaw Apache Tribe of Ebarb ...

  4. Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The largest are the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, followed by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, respectively. Since the 20th century, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians were federally recognized in 1945, [39] the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in 1971, [40] and the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in 1995 ...

  5. Iksas - Wikipedia

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    While men took on the roles of hunters and warriors, women controlled the agricultural features of the Choctaw. [15] Women maintained harvests and crops and sometimes "ridicule[d]" men who attempted too much agrarian labour. [15] The females communally owned property and supervised yields, such as corn, pumpkins and beans. [14]

  6. KY’s Choctaw Academy is a marker of Native American ... - AOL

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    The Choctaw Indian Academy in Scott County, Ky, Thursday, February 1, 2024. Established in 1825, the academy was the first federally controlled residential/boarding school for Native Americas.

  7. Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    Painting of a Choctaw woman by George Catlin. Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, Southeastern cultures, or Southeast Indians are an ethnographic classification for Native Americans who have traditionally inhabited the area now part of the Southeastern United States and the northeastern border of Mexico, that share common cultural traits.

  8. Current Choctaw Princess is ready to pass the torch at 74th ...

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    Thompson was selected as the 2023-2024 Choctaw Indian Princess at age 18 during her senior year of high school, and she is set to pass the crown to a new princess on Wednesday's opening night of ...

  9. Five Civilized Tribes Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum originated with the Da-Co-Tah Indian Club, which began campaigning in September 1951 to use the Union Indian Agency building to house a local museum. [1] In 1954, the club sponsored legislation, H.R. Bill No. 8983 by U.S. Representative Ed Edmondson, that petitioned the return of the building to the municipal government of Muskogee, Oklahoma.