Joe Watkins

The Story of the Choctaw Indians

From the Past to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of the shared history of the three federally recognized Choctaw tribes from before the first European contact in the 1530s and then provides the history and contemporary status of each of the three tribes separately. Rather than focusing on a single Choctaw group, this book offers for the first time a combined story of "the Choctaw" as the tribe comprises the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Jean Band of Choctaw Indians. The first portion of the book provides the archaeological history of the native groups that ultimately became the Choctaw, chronicling the development of the people in the southeastern portions of what is now the United States into the people who encountered the first Europeans to set foot on the continent. Though the tribe's contact with European colonists varied depending on the country from where the colonists originated, that contact was forever changed after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 led to the fractionalization of the tribe: some Choctaws moved to what is now Oklahoma, some chose to remain in Mississippi, and others chose to stay in Louisiana. The remainder of the book studies the continued histories of each of the tribes in parallel, offering students and general readers a practicable resource for understanding the Choctaw within the broad context of American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781440862663
• ISBN-10: 1440862664
• Artikelnr.: 52152947

Autorenporträt

Joe E. Watkins (Choctaw), PhD, is author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Perspectives and Sacred Sites and Repatriation and coauthor of The Anthropology Graduate's Guide: From Student to a Career.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Timeline 1 The Deep
History of the Choctaw Early Explorers of the North American Continent The
Archaic Period The Woodland Period The Mississippian Period Moundville
Lubbub Creek Into the Colonial Era 2 Interactions with European Cultures
Ethnographic Information on the Choctaw The Spanish Invasion Relations with
the French Relations with the English Conclusion 3 "A Nation Divided":
Dancing Rabbit Creek and Removal Relations with the United States The
Continental Congress and the Choctaw The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Removal Notable Figures Pre-Removal Chiefs 4 New Structures: Post-Removal
Choctaw Developments Forming the Nation The Mississippi Indians The Choctaw
and the Civil War Subdividing the Nation: Allotment and the Aftermath The
Dawes Act Dawes Commission Post-Removal Choctaw 5 Survival,
Self-Determination, and Constructing Modern Choctaw Nations Termination
Choctaw Involvement in World War I After the War The Indian "New Deal" and
Reorganization Choctaws in World War II After World War II
Self-Determination and Economic Development Gaming The Abramoff Scandal
Notable Figures Joseph Oklahombi Muriel H. Wright Previous Choctaw Chiefs
Phillip Martin Gregory Pyle 6 Choctaw in the Contemporary World The
Contemporary Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Contemporary Mississippi Band of
Choctaw Indians Contemporary Jena Band of Choctaw Indians Federally
Recognized versus Nonfederally Recognized Tribes Clifton-Choctaw The Mowa
Isle de Jean Charles Band Conclusion Notable Figures Clara Sue Kidwell
Current Choctaw Chiefs Gary Batton Phyliss J. Anderson B. Cheryl Smith
References Further Readings Index