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OCU Law was located in the Sarkeys Law Center on the southwest side of the Oklahoma City University campus until spring 2015, when it moved to a new campus near downtown Oklahoma City. The Chickasaw Nation Law Library at OCU Law houses a collection of more than 300,000 volume and volume equivalents, and is open to the public.
The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha I̠yaakni) is a federally recognized Native American tribe with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States. They are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands , originally from northern Mississippi , northwestern Alabama , southwestern Kentucky , and western Tennessee . [4]
Died. January 2, 2013. (2013-01-02) (aged 70) Washington, D.C. Occupation. Lawyer. Charles W. Blackwell (July 30, 1942 – January 2, 2013, Chickasaw Nation) was an American lawyer, educator, activist, and diplomat, who served as the first Ambassador of the Chickasaw Nation to the United States of America, from 1995 until his death in 2013. [1]
James Youngblood Henderson was born on December 20, 1944, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. [1] His is Chickasaw through his paternal grandfather, and he also claims Cheyenne ancestry. [2] He experienced poverty while growing up, which prompted him to make ending poverty for all Indigenous peoples a life goal. [4]
Ada E. Brown ( Choctaw Nation) [9] Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas (2013–2019); United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2019–present) Texas. active. Michelle Brown-Yazzie ( Navajo Nation) [10] Mescalero Apache Tribal Court (2011–present; Brown-Yazzie has served as a Chief Judge) New Mexico. active.
Betsy Love Allen (after 1782 – July 1837) was a Chickasaw merchant and planter who ran a trading post on the Natchez Trace and maintained a large cattle plantation. Born into a wealthy and influential family, she owned property in her own right under Chickasaw law. When an attorney attempted to seize one of the people her children enslaved to ...
Indian tribes were liable for taxes on gambling operations under 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701 – 2721. Chickasaw Nation v. United States, 534 U.S. 84 (2001), [1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Indian tribes were liable for taxes on gambling operations under 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2721. [2]
Chickasaw" is the English spelling of Chikashsha ( Creek pronunciation: [tʃikaʃːa] ), meaning "comes from Chicsa". In an 1890 extra census bulletin on the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, and Seminole, a history of the Choctaw and Chickasaw was included that was written by R.W. McAdam. McAdam claimed that the word "Chikasha" meant ...