List of Choctaw chiefs

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List of Choctaw chiefs is a record of the political leaders who served the Choctaws in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.

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Original three divisions

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Pushmataha
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Moshulatubbee

The eastern Choctaw Nation, in what is now Mississippi and Alabama, was divided into three regions: Okla Hannali, Okla Falaya, and Okla Tannip.

Okla Hannali (Six Towns)

Okla Falaya

Okla Tannip

District Chiefs in the New Indian Territory

After removal, the Choctaws set up their government also divided up in three regions: Apukshunnubbee, Mushulatubbee, and Pushmataha. The regions were named after the three influential Choctaw leaders of the "old country."

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George W. Harkins (1810–1861)
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Tandy Walker (1814–1877)
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Peter Pitchlynn (1806–1881)
Green McCurtain (1848-1910) Greenwood mccurtain.jpg
Green McCurtain (1848–1910)
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Victor Locke, Jr. (1876–1943)
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William Durant (1866–1948)

Moshulatubbee District

Apukshunnubbee District

Pushmataha District

Unified leadership as governor

Principal Chiefs

The Choctaw Nation was temporarily discontinued in 1906 with the advent of Oklahoma statehood.

Choctaw Nation "token" government

Chiefs were appointed by the U.S. President after U. S. Congress stripped recognition of the Choctaw national government.

Current tribes

Indian termination policy was a policy that the United States Congress legislated in 1953 to assimilate the Native American communities with mainstream America. In 1959, the Choctaw Termination Act was passed. [3] Unless repealed by the federal government, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma would effectively be terminated as a sovereign nation as of August 25, 1970. [3]

After a long struggle for recognition, the Mississippi Choctaw received recognition in 1918. The Mississippi Choctaw soon received lands, educational benefits, and a long overdue health care system.

In 1945, lands in Neshoba County, Mississippi and the surrounding counties were set aside as a federal Indian reservation. There are eight communities of reservation land: Bogue Chitto, Bogue Homa, Conehatta, Crystal Ridge, Pearl River, Red Water, Tucker, and Standing Pine. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 allowed the Mississippi Choctaws to become re-organized on April 20, 1945 as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

Oklahoma Choctaws

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Mississippi Choctaws

Mississippi Band Chief Phillip Martin (1926-2010) Phillip martin.jpg
Mississippi Band Chief Phillip Martin (1926–2010)

Pre-reorganization Era (Before 1945)

  • Wesley Johnson (Wesley Wakatubee), 1913-c. 1914 (Chief)
  • Ed Willis
  • Pat Chitto
  • Joe Chitto

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (1945-Present)

Louisiana Choctaws

Jena Band of Choctaw Indians

  • Christina M. Norris, present [5]

Notes

  1. https://home.nps.gov/articles/choctaw-warriors-consider-alliances.htm [ bare URL ]
  2. "Chiefs | Choctaw Nation".
  3. 1 2 "U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 108, 83rd Congress, 1953. (U.S. Statutes at Large, 67: B132.)". Digital History. Archived from the original on June 8, 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
  4. Meyers, Debbie Burt. "Anderson unseats Denson." Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine The Neshoba Democrat. 7 Sept 2011 (retrieved 24 Sept 2011)
  5. "Tribal Governments by Area: Southeast." Archived 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine National Congress of American Indians. (retrieved 7 Sept 2010)