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Western Garrison Life

Leave a Comment / Oklahoma, Texas / 29 minutes of reading

Grant Foreman describes the early life in a Western Garrison; providing insights on some of the traders in the region, the deaths of Seaton, Armstrong, Wheelock and Izard, all soldiers obviously familiar to him. But he also shares the story of the elopement of Miss Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of General Taylor, to Lieutenant Jefferson Davis… yes, THAT Jefferson Davis.

An interesting section of the chapter are the references to the punishments inflicted upon the soldiers in the event of their disobedience.

Painted by Catlin in 1834, the picture attached is of Clermont, chief of the Osage Tribe. Clermont is painted in full length, wearing a fanciful dress, his leggings fringed with scalp-locks, and in his hand his favorite and valued war-club.

History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians

Leave a Comment / Native American / / 14 minutes of reading

I have sought, found and brought together an amount of information concerning a people that has never before been published; having been born of parents who were missionaries to the Choctaws in 1820, and having been reared among them and intimately acquainted with them during the vicissitudes of a life extending to nearly four score …

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The Chickasaws

Leave a Comment / Florida, Native American / 7 minutes of reading

Conquest or Progress! It is the same, since it is with blood that the book of humanity is written. The pages here devoted to the narrative of the Chickasaw Indians is not an exception; theirs, too, is stained with the seemingly inevitable sanguinary horrors, but nowhere is the trace inexplicable. To some it may seem useless and …

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North America Indian Names of Places in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana

3 Comments / Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Native American, Tennessee, Virginia / 24 minutes of reading

The Indians all over this continent had names, traditions, religions, ceremonies, feasts, prayers, songs, dances all, more or less, with symbolism and allegory, adapted to circumstances, just as all other races of mankind. But the world has become so familiar with the continued and ridiculous publications in regard to everything touching upon that race of …

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Mayhew, Brainard, Elliot, and Monroe Missions

1 Comment / Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Native American, Tennessee / 13 minutes of reading

From 1822, to the time they were dispossessed of every foot of their ancient domains, and driven away to a then wilderness, the schools increased in numbers, and the ordinances of religion were augmented, and a deeper interest manifested every where over their country never witnessed before; as they, previous to that time, had had …

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Choctaws and their Beliefs about the Great Flood

Leave a Comment / Native American / 12 minutes of reading

The Choctaws, at the time of their earliest acquaintance with the European races, possessed, in conjunction with all their race of the North American Continent, a vague, but to a great extent, correct knowledge of the Oka Falama, “The returning waters,” as they termed it The Flood. The Rev. Cyrus Byington related a little incident, as …

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Choctaw Traditions – The Council Fire, The Nahullo

1 Comment / Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Native American, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas / 18 minutes of reading

The faces of the Choctaw and Chickasaw men of sixty years ago were as smooth as a woman’s, in fact they had no beard. Sometimes there might be seen a few tine hairs (if hairs they might be called) here and there upon the face, but they were few and far between, and extracted with …

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The Natchez

Leave a Comment / Mississippi, Native American / 17 minutes of reading

On February 11th, 1700, De Iberville, Bienville, Perricaul and Tonti ascended the Mississippi River as far west as the present city of Natchez. They were kindly received (so states the journalist) by the great chief, or sun, as he was termed, surrounded by six hundred of his warriors, who, according to their own account, had …

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Important Men of the Choctaw Indians

Leave a Comment / District of Columbia, Kentucky, Military, Native American, North Carolina / 8 minutes of reading

The Choctaw Nation, from its earliest known history to the present time has, at different intervals, produced many great and good men; who, had they have had the advantages of education, would have lived upon the pages of history equally with those of earth’s illustrious great. The first of whom we have any historical account, is …

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The Meeting of Folsom and Nittakachih

Leave a Comment / District of Columbia, Mississippi, Native American, Ohio / 40 minutes of reading

When the council, convened for the adjustment and final distribution of the annuity, adjourned in such confusion, together with the animosity manifested and openly expressed by both contending parties the one toward the other, (a similar scene never before witnessed in a Choctaw council) I feared the consequences that I was apprehensive would follow; but …

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Memoirs of Nathaniel Folsom

2 Comments / Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Native American, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee / 12 minutes of reading

I will here present to the reader the memoirs of Nathaniel Folsom the oldest of the three brothers who cast their lot in their morning” of life among” the Choctaws, and became the fathers of the Folsom House in the Choctaw Nation, as related by himself to the missionary, Rev. Cyrus Byington, June, 1823, and …

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Memoirs of the Durant and Crowder Families

1 Comment / Native American / 8 minutes of reading

Durant Louis Durant, a Canadian Frenchman, was the proprietor of the Durant family among the Choctaws, who came, as before stated, to the Choctaw Nation with the two brothers, Lewis and Michael LeFlore about the year 1770. He, as his friends and contemporaries, the two LeFore brothers, also selected a wife among the Choctaw forest flowers, but whose name has been lost …

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Memoirs of the Harkins Family

5 Comments / District of Columbia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Native American, Tennessee / 11 minutes of reading

John Harkins, a white man, is the father of the Harkins family of Choctaws. His advent to the Choctaw nation was, as near as can be ascertained, about the year 1800 or soon afterwards. He was a man of high-toned principles, and contemporary with the Folsoms, Nails, Pitchlynns, LeFlores, Durants, Cravats, Crowders, and others of the long ago, …

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