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The Birmingham City Council is the legislative branch that governs the City of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It has nine members elected by district, and regularly meets on Tuesday mornings at Birmingham City Hall. The council has 11 subcommittees, each of which contains three members. [1] [2]
The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha IÌ yaakni) is a federally recognized Indigenous nation with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States.The Chickasaw Nation descends from an Indigenous population historically located in the southeastern United States, including present-day northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [1]
Levi Colbert was born around 1759 in the Chickasaw Nation (present-day Alabama). He was the first of six sons of James Colbert (c. 1720 –1784), a British trader, [1] and his second wife Minta Hoye, a Chickasaw woman. As the Chickasaw had a matrilineal kinship system of descent and inheritance, children were considered to belong to the mother ...
Child labor at Avondale Mills in Birmingham, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine. The Birmingham area was historically part of the territory of the Muscogee Confederacy. [8] The most prominent Indigenous settlement in the area in the 19th century was the Upper Creek community of Tvlwv Haco, meaning "Crazy Town" in Muscogee, located in present-day Indian Springs Village.
Chickasaw Gov. Bill Anoatubby said he was pleased an agreement had been reached and that the tribe was ready to "tackle the long-standing safety issues involving the Crazy Corner intersection."
In 1832 after the state of Mississippi declared its jurisdiction over the Chickasaw Indians, outlawing tribal self-governance, Chickasaw chiefs assembled at the national council house on October 20, 1832 and signed the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek, ceding their remaining Mississippi territory to the U.S. and agreeing to find land and relocate west ...
For purposes of community development and citizen participation, the City of Birmingham's nine Council districts are divided into a total of 23 communities, and again into a total of 99 individual neighborhoods with their own neighborhood associations. Communities do not necessarily follow Council District boundaries.
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