Remaining Chickasaw in Indian Territory, 1830s-1907
By: Wendy St. Jean
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780817317256; 9780817356422; 9780817385194
Description: In the early 1800s, the U.S. government attempted to rid the Southeast of Indians in order to make way for trading networks, American emigration, optimal land use, economic development opportunities, and, ultimately, territorial expansion westward to the Pacific. The difficult removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Indian Territory?later to become part of the state of Oklahoma? was exacerbated by the U.S. government?s unenlightened decision to place the Chickasaws on lands it had previously provided solely for the Choctaw Nation. This volume deals with the challenges the Chickasaw people had from attacking Texans and Plains Indians, the tribe?s ex-slaves, the influence on the tribe of intermarried white men, and the presence of illegal aliens (U.S. citizens) in their territory. By focusing on the tribal and U.S. government policy conflicts, as well as longstanding attempts of the Chickasaw people to remain culturally unique, St. Jean reveals the successes and failures of the Chickasaw in attaining and maintaining sovereignty as a separate and distinct Chickasaw Nation.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Challenges to Chickasaw sovereignty; title: Struggle for independence from the Choctaw Nation, 1837-1855; title: Trouble with Texans and Western Indians, 1830s-1890s; title: Decision not to adopt former slaves, 1866-1907; title: Right to tax and eject U.S. citizens, 1870s-1890s; title: Curbing the influence of intermarried White men, 1870s-1907; title: Keeping the school system under Chickasaw control, 1880-1907; title: Epilogue: The end of Chickasaw sovereignty.