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  2. History of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally from the Southeast of what is currently known as the United States.They are known for their rapid post-colonial adoption of a written language, transitioning to yeoman farming methods, having European-American lifestyles enforced in their society, and acquiring some customs from Africans they enslaved.

  3. Six Nations land cessions - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.

  4. Culture of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi Choctaws in traditional clothing, ca. 1908 Choctaw beaded pouch, ca. 1900, Oklahoma, Oklahoma History Center. The culture of the Choctaw has greatly evolved over the centuries combining mostly European-American influences; however, interaction with Spain, France, and England greatly shaped it as well.

  5. Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw culture is an ancient culture that continues to thrive within the nations and communities of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and the Yowani Choctaws in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and in Oklahoma as part of the Caddo ...

  6. History of Ontario - Wikipedia

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    The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.

  7. List of Choctaw treaties - Wikipedia

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    The treaty, without Choctaw participation, put Choctaw country under U.S. control: n/a Fort Adams: 1801: United States: Mississippi Territory: Re-defined Choctaw cession to England and permission for Natchez Trace: 2,641,920 acres (10,691.5 km 2) Fort Confederation: 1802: United States: Mississippi Territory: Boundary re-defined, and lands ...

  8. Timeline of Ontario history - Wikipedia

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    Ontario since 1867 (1978), narrative history; Stagni, Pellegrino. The View from Rome: Archbishop Stagni's 1915 Reports on the Ontario Bilingual Schools Question. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2002. 134 pp. Warecki, George M. Protecting Ontario's Wilderness: A History of Changing Ideas and Preservation Politics, 1927–1973. Lang, 2000. 334 pp.

  9. Choctaw Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw Civil War was a period of economic and social unrest among the Choctaw people that degenerated into a civil war between 1747 and 1750. The war was fought between two different factions within the Choctaw over what the tribes's trade relations with British and French colonists should be.