In 1918, the Bureau of #Indian Affairs established the #Choctaw #Indian Agency in Philadelphia, Mississippi, with an initial budget of $75,000.

Aiahockatubbee, spokesman for the Okla Falaya district chief Moshulatubbee, is recognized as one of the greatest orators in #Choctaw history

In 1847, during the Great Famine, the Choctaw Nation collected $170 to help Ireland — a huge sum at the time. The Irish never forgot: in 2020, they donated €2.5 million to a Native American tribe affected by Covid-19.
🍀☘️🇮🇪🕊 #Ireland #Choctaw #CelticFC #Eire #Celtic

It is said that in the 1820s, when Christian missionaries had only been among the #Choctaws for a few years, Aiahockatubbee gave them eloquent enunciations of traditional #Choctaw beliefs, much to their consternation

In 1906, enrollment of tribal members for allotment was closed by the Congress, and in 1907, the #Choctaw nation was absorbed into the new state of Oklahoma.

It appears that groups of people began leaving the #Choctaw and establishing separate residences and separate identities many years ago, a process that has continued into recent times

In their second treaty with the #Choctaws in 1801, the Americans secured #Choctaw permission to build a wagon road through the #Choctaw nation.

In traditional #Choctaw society, serious personal disputes were resolved by an institution called a #Choctaw duel.

In 1837 alone, Presbyterian minister Cyrus Byington published 576,000 pages of text in the #Choctaw language The effect was comp#Arable to the dialect of London the standard dialect of the #English language.

In the early eighteenth century the Natchez, one of the #Choctaw's nearest neighbors, were still practicing a temple mound culture when Europeans first made intimate contact with #Indians of that area

the American Greeting Corporation's #Choctaw Greeting Enterprise began production, and the Oxford Investment Company started manufacturing automobile radio speakers at the #Choctaw Electronics Enterprise

Choctaw Nation celebrates the launch of new language app, Rosetta Stone partnership
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#Oklahoma #Choctaw

The Americans did not have the right to own land, were not allowed representation within the nation, and were not allowed to send their children to the #Choctaw public schools.

Okla Hannali war chief Pushmataha was the most persuasive #Choctaw public speaker of his generation, with only Aiahockatubbee as his peer.

This coming Friday (September 11)

Please join us at the London Premier of 'Drowned Land' @ New Cross House (6:30pm; tickets via Sharing Lands on www.eventbrite.co.uk).

#drownedland #sharinglands #choctaw #choctawgift #choctaw/irish

Walking the Red Road Home - my ebook, is FREE for this labor day weekend (and Monday) on Amazon for Kindle!
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