Choctaw Indian History (also Chickasaw and Natchez)

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History of

The Choctaw, Chickasaw 

& Natchez Indians

By H. B. Cushman, 1899

611 pages, indexed,searchable

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Life Among

The Choctaw Indians

And Sketches of the South-West

Henry C. Benson, 1860

314 pages, indexed, searchable

 

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Oklahoma Indian Territory

Marriages, Book “A”

1890-1900

Choctaw Nation, Second Division

(Pages faint, some difficult to read entirely).

326 pages, indexed

 

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A Dictionary of

The Choctaw Language

Johns R. Swanton, 1915

624 pages, indexed

 

 

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Choctaw Indian Nation traces its ancestry to Mississippi and some sections of Alabama.

Legends tell that the Choctaw people originated from "Nanih Waya", a sacred hill near

what is now known as Noxapter, Mississippi. "Nanih Waiya" means "Productive Mound" and

is often referred to as "The Mother Mound".

 

Culturally, the Choctaws have always honored their women as the head of every family

household. They were, and still are today, considered the care-takers of our children,

our elders, and the home.

 

The Choctaws were the first of the five great southern tribes of the United States

to be moved to Oklahoma by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. Over 20,000

Choctaws moved on this long journey, with many of the Choctaw people not

surviving this removal on what has come to be called "THE TRAIL OF TEARS".

 

 

CONTENTS-Life Among The Choctaw Indians.

 

Preface Page 3

 

Introduction 7

 

CHAPTER I.

Border Indians — Colonization — Names of tribes —

Necessity for Removal — Effects thereof — Numbers — Territory oc-

cupied — Choctaws and Chickasaws 21

 

CHAPTER II.

Government — Their constitution — Religious toleration — Civil rights —

Laws — Now printed — Punishments — Anecdote 27

 

CHAPTER III.

Social habits — Marriage — Settlements — Employments — Food — Slave-

holding — Use of tobacco 31

 

CHAPTER IV.

Education — Schools — Choctaw Academy — Its influence — Mission

schools — School fund — Books used — Choctaw literature — Indian

lecture 30

 

CHAPTER V.

The country — Its size — Natural products — Stock grazing — Surface —

Winters— Storms 42

 

CHAPTER VI.

Condition of the Choctaws on their removal — Trials endured in

their new settlement — Necessity for Christian civilization gener-

ally felt 40

 

CHAPTER VII.

Choctaw cliaractcr — Purity of blood — Intermarriages rare — Inter-

course with other tribes — Indian names — Fashions — Personal ap-

jicarancc — Women Page 60

 

CHAPTER VIII.

New School system — Methodist mission — Travels of Missionary Sec-

retary, Rev. E. R. Ames — Establishment of a school system —

Seminaries founded — Appropriation for the mission schools 56

 

CHAPTER IX.

Fort Coffee Academy — Appointment of teachers — Rev. William II.

Goode and the author transferred to the new mission — School

buildings — Site of the village — Arrival of Mr. Goode — Prayer

meeting — Repairs of school-houses — Outdoor labors 63

 

CHAPTER X.

Journey to the Indian country — Voyage down the river — Southern

plantation — Aspects of slavery — Napoleon — Swamps and muske-

toes — Incidents — Preaching on Sabbath — On the Arkansas river —

Arkansas port — French merchant — Improvements — Little Rock —

Van Buren and Fort Smith — Their location and importance —

Slaveholding — Arrival at Fort Coffee 70

 

CHAPTER XI.

Arrival at Fort Coffee — Absence of Mr. Goode — Mission family —

AVork begun — Agricultural labor — Difficulties 85

 

CHAPTER XII.

 

The mission — Heathenish darkness — Class meetings — Sunday — Re-

flections — Native cordiality — Effects of Christian teachings 90

 

CHAPTER XIII.

Neighbors — Mission reservations — Jones, an Indian resident — His

slave, old Hannah — Now ideas slowly infused — Trade with Jones —

His habits — Cornelius Macann — Mr. Ring — Major Armstrong — Mr.

Wilson - 95

 

CHAPTER XIV.

Distinguished men — Hon. Nat Folsom — William Kiddle — Colonel

Thomson McKenny — lion. J. Fletcher — Colonel Peter P. Pitch-

lynn — lion. Peter Folsom — Colonel S. Jones — Titular dignitaries —

Anecdote Page 101

 

CHAPTER XV.

Fourth of July celebration — Journey to Fort Smith — The arrange-

ments — Return — Mr. Heald — Anecdotes — Cane-brakes — The car-

penter leaves — Employes dismissed — Fishing — Anecdote 107

 

CHAPTER XVI.

Provisions spoiled — Repairing damages — Sold — Incident — Massard

Prairie — Meeting held there — Class formed — Residents 113

 

CHAPTER XVII.

Indian camp meeting — Going to it — Getting directions — Through

the wilderness — Site of the meeting — At camp — Preaching — The

congregation — Progress of the meeting — Results — Meeting at New

Hope — Romance 120

 

CHAPTER XVIII.

Visit to Fort Smith — Holding meeting — ^The congregation — Drunk-

enness — Preaching at Massard — A freshet — Crossing the river —

The ferryman — The return 129

 

CHAPTER XIX.

Camp meeting on the border — Mountain ride — Halting for the

night — Resuming the journey — Arrival at camp — Its appear-

ance — Employments — The meeting — Incidents — Sacrament —

clothes — Return — Incidents and Accidents — Sickness 1.38

 

CHAPTER XX.

Choctaw wedding — Bridal party — Festivities — Seminoles — A Choc-

taw's opinion of them — Presbyterian mission among them — Til

success — Abandonment of the mission 11'.'

 

CHAPTER XXI.

Indian games — Ball-playing — General interest in it — Match games —

Playing them — Their interfering with religious meetings — Inci-

dent Page 153

 

CHAPTER XXII.

Murder of Mr. Vore and family — Particulars of the murder — The

criminals advertised — Intercourse between the tribes — Repairs at

the mission house — Workmen employed — Our teamster — Intoxi-

cated — Dismissed — The author turning laborer — Effects 157

 

CHAPTER XXIII.

Rev. John Page, a Choctaw preacher — His history — Boyhood — In-

struction — Conversion — Licensed to preach — Admitted into confer-

ence — Missionary to his people — Personal appearance — Hold meet-

ing with him — Attending conference — The route — Timber — Lynch

law — White Oak Mountains — Sketches along the way — The doc-

tor — Conference — Missionary meeting — Return to the mission — Mr.

and Mrs. Goode — Retrospect of the year — Arrival of the mission

family 162

 

CHAPTER XXIV.

Indian annuities — On guard — Fears of robbery — The weapons — Mr.

Irwin's death — His character — Funeral — Relieved from duty as

guard 172

 

CHAPTER XXV.

Quarterly meeting — Quarterly conference — Goods not arrived — In

search of them — Hon. Samuel Adams — Kindness — Assistance —

Obtaining of the goods — Waiting for a rise in the river — Ozark

village — Inhabitants — Preaching on Sunday — Arrival of boat —

Return homo — Visit from a Cherokee 170

 

CHAPTER XXVI.

Conks leave — Employment of a colored man and family — Farm en-

larged— Appointments of Mr. Page— Work of the author 183

 

CHAPTER XXVII.

Opening of the Academy — Trustees — Pupils received — Native cloth-

ing — School Outfit — Anecdote — Indian names — Other names giv-

en — Instruction — Incident — Talker Page ISG

 

CHAPTER XXVIII.

School duties — The premises — Daily exercises — Saturday labors and

recreation — Changes of clothing — Sunday exercises — Requisitions

in the school — Character of the lads — Punishments — Marble-play-

ing forbidden 191

 

CHAPTER XXIX.

Freshets in the streams — Overflowing of low grounds — Inundation

of farms and houses — Pt. Ayesley Browning — Stopped by the

floods from reaching his appointment — Returns to St. Louis —

Fishing — Fishes taken 197

 

CHAPTER XXX.

Religious awakening — Mr. Page's influence — Prayer meetings — Sev-

eral of the lads become pious — Admitted into Church — Examina-

tions — Summer vacation — Visit to Massard — Incidents — Illustra-

tion of slavery — Holding meeting — Administering the sacrament —

Baptisms by immersion — Appointment to preach — A Chickasaw

woman 202

 

CHAPTER XXXI.

Quapaws — One of them, with his wife, visits the school — Villiers —

His character — History — Personal appearance — Pronunciation of

the name Arkansas 209

 

CHAPTER XXXII.

Ball — Cornelius Macann — Parricide — The murderer — Tried and con-

victed — Escapes — Criminal Trials — Suicide — Isaac McKee — His su-

icide — The motive — Homicide of Lewis Calvin by Captain Rid-

dle — The occasion of the killing — Riddle's remorse — His sickness

and death 213

 

CHAPTER XXXIII.

The Academy — Second year — Return of the pupils — Visitors — Choc-

taw customs — Language and peculiarities — Temperance society — ■

Discussions — Signing the pledge — Incident Page 221

 

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Indian Mission conference — Traveling to Tahlequah — Cherokee civ-

ilization — Agriculture — Customs of the nation — Fairfield — Presby-

terian mission — Dr. Butler and the mission family — Park Hill mis-

sion — Mr. "Worcester — Miss Thompson — Her self-devotion 227

 

CHAPTER XXXV.

 

Persecuted missionaries — Mr. Worcester and Dr. Butler — Georgia

tyranny — Arrest and imprisonment of the missionaries — Cruelty

to the missionaries — Sentenced to imprisonment — Appeal to the

Supreme Court — Georgia sentence reversed — Insolence of the

Georgia ofiSeials — Final restoration to liberty — Christian forgive-

ness — Missionary sacrifices .. 235

 

CHAPTER XXXVI.

 

Conference session — Admission to the conference — Mr. Hurlburt —

Division of the Church — Convention of southern preachers — Elec-

tion of delegates to the Convention — Conference Missionary Soci-

ety — Bishop Morris 240

 

CHAPTER XXXVII.

The Cherokee capital — Park Hill — lion. John Ross and brother —

Wm. P. Ross — Mrs. Wolf — Cherokee alphabet — The language —

Invention of an alphabet — George Guess — His character — Death —

Influence of his invention — Anecdote — Incident 24-4

 

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Political strife and discord — Captain Ridge — Captain Rogers — Their

contentions — John Ross — The return home — Dwight mission — Tho

mission family — Interview — New appointments of preachers — J.

C. Berryman — Learner B. Stateler — Isaac F. Collins 252

 

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Death of Oakchiah — Sketch of his life — Conversion — Persecutions —

Becomes preacher — Opposed by his father — Incident — His father's

conversion — Licensed to preach — Ordained — Labors — Sickness —

Circumstances of his death — Personal appearance Page 259

 

CHAPTER XL.

Progress in study — Cultivation — Rapid improvement — Moses Porter

and Coleman Daniel — Character of the former — His conversion —

Taken sick — Incidents — Incidents of his sickness — Death — Re-

flections 2G7

 

CHAPTER XLI

Rev. Mr. Fisk, Indian preacher — Visit to the mission — Interesting

exercises — Ministerial outfit — Pneumonia — Medical attendance —

Visit to Massard — Food — Customs among the people — Fort Smith —

Cedar Prairie — Incident 272

 

CHAPTER XLII.

Louisville Convention — Delegates — Preparation for leaving the mis-

sion — Division of the Church — Mr. Goode leaves — Mr. Stateler

superintendent — Walter A. Duncan — Indian trails — Incident.. 279

 

CHAPTER XLIII.

 

Contraband traffic — Spirituous liquors— Incident — Indian scrupu-

lousness 285

 

CHAPTER XLIV.

A short chapter in itinerant life — Organization of a society — Change

of preacher — Mistake of the people — Their honesty and hos-

pitality 288

 

CHAPTER XLV.

Death in the mission — .James Wathin — The funeral — Removal of

corpse for interment — Indian ceremonies at funerals — Their mourn-

itig customs — Burial of servants 292

 

CHAPTER XLV I.

Our work — New buildings — Neglect of servants — The remedy — Ef-

fects — Charles, the cook — Ills peculiarities Page 297

 

CHAPTER XLVII.

Settlement with the superintendent — Preparations to depart — Last

service with the scholars — Departure — Reflections — Changes in the

school — Reminiscences of Indian characters 302

 

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Sketch of Mrs. Sarah B. Goode — Her birth — Marriage — Religions

life — Missionary and itinerant labors — Sickness — Death —

Conclusion 308

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  • Type: State History
  • State: Oklahoma
  • Year: 1921
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