page_title: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
section_title: List of Chiefs
hierarchical_section_title: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma / Government / Executive Department / List of Chiefs
caption_attribution_description: English: Former districts and capitals of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, that existed from 1834-1857, shown with present-day Oklahoma counties.
context_page_description: The Choctaw Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe with a tribal jurisdictional area and reservation comprising 10.5 counties in Southeastern Oklahoma. The third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo, the Choctaw Nation maintains a special relationship with both the federal and Oklahoma governments. The tribe is the successor-state of the original Choctaw Republic, which had existed as a semi-independent entity in the United States Indian Territory until Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907.
  As of 2011, the tribe has 223,279 enrolled members, of whom 84,670 live within the state of Oklahoma and 41,616 live within the Choctaw Nation's jurisdiction. A total of 233,126 people live within these boundaries. The tribal jurisdictional area is 10,864 square miles. By area, the Choctaw Nation is larger than eight U.S. states – Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.
  The chief of the Choctaw Nation is Gary Batton, who took office on April 29, 2014, after the retirement of Gregory E. Pyle.
caption: Former districts and capitals of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, that existed from 1834-1857, shown with present-day Oklahoma counties.
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