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The MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians is a state-recognized tribe, located in southwest Alabama, with a population largely based in southern Washington County and some membership in northern Mobile County. The term MOWA is a portmanteau of Mobile and Washington Counties. [5] They were formerly named the Mobile-Washington County Band of Choctaw ...
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.
Pushmataha. Pushmataha ( c. 1764 – December 24, 1824; also spelled Pooshawattaha, Pooshamallaha, or Poosha Matthaw) was one of the three regional chiefs of the major divisions of the Choctaw in the 19th century. Many historians considered him the "greatest of all Choctaw chiefs". [2] Pushmataha was highly regarded among Native Americans ...
The Success through Academic Recognition (STAR) program is an incentive program for Choctaw members enrolled in grades 2nd through 12th, (nationwide and homeschool students as well), ...
Mar. 2—A new program to help renters unable to pay rent and utilities if certain guidelines are met was announced this week by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The Emergency Rental Assistance ...
The Choctaw ( Choctaw: Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians ...
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 ...
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.