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  2. Tishomingo - Wikipedia

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    Tishomingo was born around 1758 in the Chickasaw Nation (present-day Mississippi). [2] He served with United States Army Major-General Anthony Wayne against the Shawnee in Northwest Territory and received a silver medal from President George Washington.

  3. Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training

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    Chief, Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police: Large City Police Department: Bill Citty Chief, Oklahoma City Police Department: Small City Police Department: Byron Cox Chief, Weatherford Police Department: Small County Sheriff Office: Ken Grace Sheriff, Carter County Sheriff's Office: Large County Sheriff Office: Paul D. Taylor Sheriff, Oklahoma ...

  4. Lighthorse (American Indian police) - Wikipedia

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    Lighthorse (or Light Horse) is an official or colloquial name for the police forces of federally recognized tribes in the United States. Some tribal governments officially refer to their police as Lighthorse while others do not. Historically, the term referred to the Five Civilized Tribes of the United States' mounted police forces. The ...

  5. George Colbert - Wikipedia

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    George Colbert (c. 1764 – November 7, 1839) was an early 19th-century Chickasaw leader who commanded 350 Chickasaw auxiliary troops who fought under Major General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War. He also served as an officer in Major Blue's Detachment of Chickasaw Indians during the later part of the War of 1812.

  6. Herman Frederick Newblock - Wikipedia

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    He briefly operated a hardware store in Sulpher, Chickasaw Nation before settling in Tulsa in 1905. He was appointed Tulsa's police chief in 1907 and served until October 1908 when he was appointed to succeed Lon Lewis as Tulsa County sheriff. In 1911 he left the sheriff's office to return to his previous position as chief of police.

  7. Chickasaw - Wikipedia

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    Chickasaw chiefs and high-status women found such marriages of strategic benefit to the tribe, as it gave them advantages with traders over other groups. Colbert and his wives had numerous children, including seven sons: William, Jonathan, George, Levi, Samuel, Joseph, and Pittman (or James). Six survived to adulthood (Jonathan died young.)

  8. William Clyde Thompson - Wikipedia

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    William Clyde Thompson (c. 1839–1912) was a Texas Choctaw-Chickasaw leader of the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Texas and an officer of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. After moving north to the Chickasaw Nation in 1889, he led an effort to gain enrollment of his family and other Texas Choctaws as Citizens by blood of ...

  9. Piomingo - Wikipedia

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    Hopayi' Minko' (often written as Piomingo or Piominko; [a] c.1750 – c.1799) was a Chickasaw chief and diplomat. [b] President George Washington and Piomingo considered themselves to be friends. He was a signatory to the Chickasaw Treaty of Hopewell. Piomingo received a presidential peace medal from Washington for his loyalty to the US.