Riding out the storm
Subtitle: 19th century Chickasaw governors, their lives and intellectual legacy
By: Phillip Carroll Morgan
Publisher: Chickasaw Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ada, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781935684107
Subjects: Governors; Biography; History; Indians in literature
Other titles: 19th century Chickasaw governors, their lives and intellectual legacy
Description: Examines the Chickasaw constitutional republic between 1855 and 1892, a period that saw the Indian Removal, the Civil War, and the Dawes Act, and how three Indian governors led their nation through uninvited changes brought on by white colonizers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The maze of colonialism : the Byrds of Virginia and Indian Territory; title: Blizzards of coincidence : Cyrus Harris and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County; title: Tempest in the Territory : Winchester Colbert and the crucibles of war; title: Conclusion : enlightenment and thunder in Chickasaw intellectual traditions.