Title Remaining Chickasaw in Indian Territory, 1830s-1907 / Wendy St. Jean

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (156 pages) Contents Introduction: Challenges to Chickasaw sovereignty -- Struggle for independence from the Choctaw Nation, 1837-1855 -- Trouble with Texans and Western Indians, 1830s-1890s -- Decision not to adopt former slaves, 1866-1907 -- Right to tax and eject U.S. citizens, 1870s-1890s -- Curbing the influence of intermarried White men, 1870s-1907 -- Keeping the school system under Chickasaw control, 1880-1907 -- Epilogue: The end of Chickasaw sovereignty Summary In the early 1800s, the U.S. government attempted to rid the Southeast of Indians in order to make way for trading networks, American emigration, optimal land use, economic development opportunities, and, ultimately, territorial expansion westward to the Pacific. The difficult removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Indian Territory-later to become part of the state of Oklahoma- was exacerbated by the U.S. government's unenlightened decision to place the Chickasaws on lands it had previously provided solely for the Choctaw Nation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151 and index Notes Print version record Subject Chickasaw Indians -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century Chickasaw Indians -- Oklahoma -- Politics and government -- 19th century Chickasaw Indians -- Oklahoma -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century Sovereignty -- History -- 19th century Social conflict -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Chickasaw Indians Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations Ethnic relations Social conditions Social conflict Sovereignty SUBJECT Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century Indian Territory -- History Oklahoma -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century Oklahoma -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma -- Indian Territory Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780817385194 0817385193

  Permalink