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Nashoba County, Indian Territory
Nashoba County (Choctaw: ''Kanti Nashoba'') was a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory. The county formed part of the Nation’s Apukshunnubbee District, or Second District, one of three administrative super-regions in the Nation. This territory was later made part of the state of Oklahoma. History Nashoba County, Choctaw Nation was named for Neshoba County, Mississippi, where some of the Choctaw had historically lived. ''Nashoba'' is the Choctaw word for “wolf.” Although occasionally known as Wolf County, the county was generally referred to by its Choctaw name. Due to an agreement among clan chiefs prior to the removal to the west now known as the Trail of Tears, many of the residents of Neshoba County settled in the new Nashoba County in the Choctaw Nation after they reached Indian Territory. Nashoba County’s boundaries were established and designated according to easily recognizable natural landmarks, as were the boundaries of all Choctaw Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choctaw Language
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean languages, Muskogean language family. Chickasaw language, Chickasaw is a separate but closely related language to Choctaw. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma published the ''New Choctaw dictionary'' in 2016. Dialects There are three dialects of Choctaw (Mithun 1999): # "Native" Choctaw on the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation in southeastern Oklahoma # Mississippi Choctaw of Oklahoma on Chickasaw Nation of south-central Oklahoma (near Durwood) # Choctaw of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians near Philadelphia, Mississippi Other speakers live near Tallahassee, Florida, and with the Koasati in Louisiana, and also a few speakers live in Texas and California. Phonology * More information on suffixes is in the #Morphology, Morphology section. Consonants # The only Voice (phonetics), voiced stop is . The Voicelessness, voiceless s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade County, Choctaw Nation
{{Short description, Former political subdivision Wade County was a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory, prior to Oklahoma being admitted as a state. The county formed part of the Nation's Apukshunnubbee District, or First District, one of three administrative super-regions. The county was named for Alfred Wade, a prominent Choctaw leader and statesman. Following the American Civil War—in which the Choctaw Nation joined the Confederate States of America—Wade was among the national leaders who traveled to Washington to negotiate with the American government to secure peace, achieved at great cost via the Treaty of 1866. Wade lived six miles east of Talihina. The county seat of Wade County was Lenox, or ''Tuli Hina'' in the Choctaw language, five miles east of Whitesboro and 14 miles east of Talihina. Lenox was situated near the Kiamichi River. A United States Post Office operated here from 1896-1913. Lenox served primarily as a court ground, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,812. Its county seat is Antlers. The county was created at statehood from part of the former territory of the Choctaw Nation, which had its capital at the town of Tuskahoma. Planned by the Five Civilized Tribes as part of a state of Sequoyah, the new Oklahoma state also named the county for Pushmataha, an important Choctaw chief in the American Southeast. He had tried to ensure that his people would not have to cede their lands, but died in Washington, DC during a diplomatic trip in 1824. The Choctaw suffered Indian Removal to Indian Territory. History Administrative history * Ca. 1000–1500: Caddoan Mississippian culture at Spiro Mounds * 1492–1718: Spain * 1718–1763: France * 1763–1800: Spain * 1800–1803: France * 1803–present: United States (after Louisiana Purchase) :* 1824–1825: Miller County, Arkansas Territory (east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCurtain County, Oklahoma
McCurtain County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 30,814. Its county seat is Idabel. It was formed at statehood from part of the earlier Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory.Coleman, Louis"McCurtain County" ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015. The name honors an influential Choctaw family who lived in the area. Jackson McCurtain and Edmund McCurtain served in the Confederate Army before their terms as chief, while Green McCurtain was the last chief when Oklahoma became a state in 1907."Origin of County Names in Oklahoma". In: ''Chronicles of Oklahoma''. Volume 2, Number 1. March, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushmataha County, Sequoyah
{{distinguish, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Pushmataha County was a proposed political subdivision created by the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention. The convention, meeting in Muskogee, Indian Territory in 1905, established the political and administrative layout of a prospective U.S. state it called the State of Sequoyah. Sequoyah was an attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes and others in the Indian Territory—who did not wish to be incorporated into an American state—to establish full statehood for the territory. Although their attempt to achieve statehood was unsuccessful, many of their deliberations in establishing proposed counties proved useful to the framers of Oklahoma, who met just two years later for the purpose of establishing the State of Oklahoma. The boundaries of modern-day Choctaw, Pushmataha and McCurtain counties in Oklahoma are derived largely from the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention. The First Pushmataha County The revered Choctaw Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequoyah Constitutional Convention
The Sequoyah Constitutional Convention was an American Indian-led attempt to secure statehood for Indian Territory as an Indian-controlled jurisdiction, separate from the Oklahoma Territory. The proposed state was to be called the State of Sequoyah. The convention drafted a constitution, drew up a plan of organization for the government, put together a map showing the counties to be established, and elected delegates to go to the United States Congress to petition for statehood. The convention's proposals were put to a referendum in Indian Territory, and received overwhelming endorsement by voters. However, the delegation received a cool reception in Washington, D.C., due to party politics, and failed to secure its goals. Although unsuccessful, the convention paved the way for the creation of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Background The Five Civilized Tribes and other tribes in Indian territory were generally opposed to local and national efforts for statehood. As mandated by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Sequoyah
The State of Sequoyah was a proposed U.S. state, state to be established from the Indian Territory in Eastern Oklahoma, eastern present-day Oklahoma. In 1905, with the end of tribal governments looming, Five Civilized Tribes, Native Americans (the Cherokee Nation, Cherokee, Choctaw Nation, Choctaw, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Creek, and Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Seminole) in Indian Territory proposed to create a state as a means to retain control of their lands. Their intention was to have a state under Native American constitution and governance. Their efforts failed to gain support in Congress, and the territory was annexed to the United States in 1907. Background Starting in 1890, when Congress passed the Oklahoma Organic Act, the land that now forms the State of Oklahoma was made up of two separate territories: Oklahoma Territory to the west and the Indian Territory to the east. The Indian Territory had a large Native Americans in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rattan, Oklahoma
Rattan is a town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 276 at the 2020 census. Geography Rattan is located in southern Pushmataha County at the intersection of Oklahoma routes 3 and 93. Rock Creek flows past just west of the community center and Hugo Lake lies to the south in adjacent Choctaw County. The southwest end of the Ouachita Mountains lies to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. History Established in approximately 1910, Rattan was named for Rattan, Texas, from which a number of its early white settlers came. Rattan, Texas—located in Delta County, twenty-one miles southwest of Paris, Texas—was named for local postal officer Clarence V. Rattan in 1893. Following Oklahoma's statehood in 1907 a number of Delta County families relocated to the new Pushmataha County, among them Akins, Akards, and Helms. The Delta County family (or families) apparently establishing itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar County, Choctaw Nation
Cedar County was a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory. The county formed part of the nation’s Apukshunnubbee District, or Second District, one of three administrative super-regions. The word for "Cedar" in the Choctaw language is ''Chuala''. The county was often referred to as Chuala County. Cedar County was established by the Choctaw Nation’s Doaksville Constitution of 1860. It ceased to exist on November 16, 1907, along with the Choctaw Nation and the Indian Territory, upon the advent of Oklahoma’s statehood. The territory comprising the former county is now included in the Pushmataha County and McCurtain County in Oklahoma. The county seat of Cedar County was Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory, Sulphur Springs, located near present-day Rattan, Oklahoma in Pushmataha County. Like all Choctaw County (United States), counties, Cedar County served as an election district for members of the National Council, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language, and refers to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Previously part of French Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase, the Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836. Much of the Delta had been developed for cotton plantations, and landowners there largely depended on enslaved African Americans' labor. In 1861, Arkansas seceded from the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw language, Choctaw: ''Chahta Okla'') is a Indian reservation, Native American reservation occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. At roughly , it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo Nation, Navajo, exceeding that of the List of U.S. states and territories by area, seven smallest U.S. states (Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts). The seat of government is located in Durant, Oklahoma. As of 2011, the tribe has 223,279 enrolled members, of whom 84,670 live within the state of Oklahoma and 41,616 live within the Choctaw Nation's jurisdiction. A total of 233,126 people live within these boundaries, with its tribal jurisdictional area comprising 10.5 counties in the state. The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States, and shares borders with the reservations of the Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw, Muscogee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little River (Red River Tributary)
The Little River is a tributary of the Red River, with a total length of , within the Choctaw Indian Reservation in southeastern Oklahoma and in southwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Red, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Six large reservoirs impound the Little River and its tributaries. The drainage basin of the river totals , in Oklahoma and in Arkansas. The Little River and its upper tributaries are popular for recreational canoeing and kayaking. Course The highest sources of the Little River are at an elevation of more than in southwestern Le Flore County, Oklahoma in the Ouachita Mountains. It initially flows westward into Pushmataha County, then south into McCurtain County where it turns to flow southeast, past Wright City and through the Little River National Wildlife Refuge and a portion of the Ouachita National Forest, into Arkansas, where it flows through or along the boundaries of Sevier, Little River and Hempstead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
