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Cornelius McCurtain was born in the Choctaw Nation within Mississippi Territory on March 5, 1803, to Daniel McCurtain and Hannah Cole. Daniel McCurtain was the son of an Irish immigrant of the same name who had fought in the American Revolution and Celia Jane, a member of the Choctaw tribe. Hannah Cole's mother, Shamoka, was Chakchiuma. He ...
Apukshunnubbee District covered the southeastern one-third of the Choctaw Nation. The districts were established when the Choctaw Nation relocated via the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory—present-day Oklahoma. They were originally intended to be homelands for settlers from the three major clans or divisions of the Choctaw comprising the ...
The Florida Historical Quarterly. 71 (2): 188–208. ISSN 0015-4113. JSTOR 30150360. Hann, John H. (1996). "Late Seventeenth-Century Forebears of the Lower Creeks and Seminoles". Southeastern Archaeology. 15 (1): 66–80. ISSN 0734-578X. JSTOR 40713051. Hann, John H. (2006). The Native American World Beyond Apalachee. University Press of Florida.
Also called the Third District, it encompassed the southwestern one-third of the nation. The Pushmataha District was named in honor of Pushmataha, a revered Choctaw warrior and statesman who was chief of Okla Hannali, the Six Towns District, one of the three historic, major clan divisions of the Choctaw in their historic territory of the Southeast.
Mar. 2—A new program to help renters unable to pay rent and utilities if certain guidelines are met was announced this week by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The Emergency Rental Assistance ...
The Biskinik is the monthly newspaper of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. It is sent free to registered Choctaw Nation tribal members upon request. [1] It is published in Durant, Oklahoma by the Choctaw Nation. [2] It was first published in 1978. [3] The Library of Congress shows a record of its publication from 1978 to 1981 and from 1983 to the ...
Confederate Units of Indian Territory consisted of Native Americans from the Five Civilized Tribes — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. [1] The 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles were commanded by the highest ranking Native American of the war: Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, who also became the last Confederate General to surrender on June 23, 1865. [2]
Apuckshunubbee (c. 1740 – October 18, 1824) was one of three principal chiefs of the Choctaw Native American tribe in the early nineteenth century, from before 1800. He led the western or Okla Falaya ("Long People") District of the Choctaw, of which the eastern edge ran roughly southeast from modern Winston County to Lauderdale County, then roughly southwest to Scott County, then roughly ...