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Author Osburn, Katherine M. B.

Title Choctaw resurgence in Mississippi : race, class, and nation building in the jim crow south, 1830-1977 / Katherine M.B. Osburn.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Indians of the southeast
Indians of the Southeast.
Summary "When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When the remaining Choctaws applied for their allotments, however, the government reneged, and the Choctaws were left dispossessed and impoverished. Thus begins the history of the Mississippi Choctaws as a distinct people. Despite overwhelming poverty and significant racial prejudice in the rural South, the Mississippi Choctaws managed, over the course of a century and a half, to maintain their ethnic identity, persuade the Office of Indian Affairs to provide them with services and lands, create a functioning tribal government, and establish a prosperous and stable reservation economy. The Choctaws' struggle against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s is an overlooked story of the civil rights movement, and this study of white supremacist support for Choctaw tribalism considerably complicates our understanding of southern history. Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi traces the Choctaw's remarkable tribal rebirth, attributing it to their sustained political and social activism."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History.
Choctaw Indians.
Mississippi.
History.
Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- Goverment relations.
Choctaw Indians -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Civil rights.
Self-determination, National -- Mississippi.
Self-determination, National.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Mississippi -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Mississippi -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Osburn, Katherine M.B. Choctaw resurgence in Mississippi 9780803273870 (DLC) 2013049977 (OCoLC)862098199
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