Title: Riding out the storm
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.
Subjects: Governors, Biography, History, Indians in literature
Places: Oklahoma Chickasaw Nation
People: Winchester Colbert, Cyrus Harris, William Leander Byrd
Time periods: 19th century