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Choctaw Nation Peter Pitchlynn was the Choctaw Principal Chief from 1864 to 1866, and a Choctaw Delegate to Washington, D.C., for nearly two decades following. He is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Painting, 1834, Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Confederacy's loss was also the Choctaw Nation's loss.
The Yowani were a historical group of Choctaw people who lived in Texas. [1] Yowani was also the name of a preremoval Choctaw village. [2] When this area became part of the United States under the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, many of the resident Indian tribes wanted to emigrate to less hostile environs. Spain agreed to allow the Yowani and the ...
A year after feds approve funds, Texas launches program to help homeowners avoid foreclosure because of COVID-19
The Choctaw Nation Health Care Center, located in Talihina, is a 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m 2) health facility with 37 hospital beds for inpatient care and 52 exam rooms. The $22 million hospital is complete with $6 million worth of state-of-the-art [clarification needed] equipment and furnishing.
Aug. 14—The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma details the Success through Academic Recognition incentive program for Choctaw students nationwide who are enrolled in grades 2nd through 12th.
Jul. 7—Choctaw Nation tribal members in District 11 can learn more about candidates for the District 11 council seat before heading out to the polls Friday and Saturday with this recap of ...
William Clyde Thompson (c. 1839–1912) was a Texas Choctaw-Chickasaw leader of the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Texas and an officer of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. After moving north to the Chickasaw Nation in 1889, he led an effort to gain enrollment of his family and other Texas Choctaws as Citizens by blood of ...
The complete Choctaw Nation shaded in blue in relation to the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Choctaw Trail of Tears was the attempted ethnic cleansing and relocation by the United States government of the Choctaw Nation from their country, referred to now as the Deep South (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana), to lands west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory in the 1830s ...