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Author / Creator:Green, Richard (Richard Walter)
Imprint:Ada, Okla. : Chickasaw Press, c2007-2012.
Description:4 v. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7546797
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ISBN:9780979785818
0979785812
9780979785863 (v. 2)
0979785863 (v. 2)
9780979785894 (v. 3)
0979785898 (v. 3)
9781935684077 (v. 4)
1935684078 (v. 4)
Notes:"These articles ... appeared in tribal publications from 1994 into 2005"--Vol. 1, p. vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Arriving from the west ages ago, the people who became the Chickasaws settled in a portion of southeastern North America. As they emerged from the mound building culture into historical times, they became embroiled in the deadly European colonial conquest to extend their empires to the New World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for extermination. But the Chickasaw people survived and prospered until their one-time ally, the United States, became their adversary and forced the tribe to move west to Indian Territory. After some years of despondency,l the people began rebuilding a great nation. Simultaneously, a great horde of Americans settled illegally on their new land. The United States set a date to extinguish the tribe's government and land base. Volume one of a three-part series, this collection of essays details this history, as well as how the tribe was able to keep body and soul together until tribal government could be reconstituted and revitalized in the 1960s.
Other form:Online version: Green, Richard (Richard Walter) Chickasaw lives. Ada, Okla. : Chickasaw Press, c2007-
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Arriving from the west ages ago, the people who became the Chickasaws settled in a portion of southeastern North America. As they were emerging from the Mound Builder culture into historical times, they became embroiled in the deadly quest of European colonial powers to extend their empires to the New World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for extermination.

But, as Richard Green shows in Chickasaw Lives, the Chickasaw people survived and prospered. Then their one-time ally, the United States, became their adversary and forced the tribe to move west to Indian Territory. After several years of despondency, the people were again building a great nation. Simultaneously, however, a great horde of Anglo-Americans settled illegally on their new land. With some of those Americans clamoring for Oklahoma statehood, the U.S. government set a date to extinguish the tribe?s government and land base.

Here for the first time is a selection of articles and essays that explain why that did not happen. Green explains how the tribe kept body and soul together until tribal government could be reconstituted and revitalized after the United States in the 1960s stopped attempting to vanquish tribal governments.

The twenty-nine articles featured here are arranged chronologically from prehistory into the modern era. Topics include the Mound Builders, the epic battle with Hernando de Soto, European colonial manipulations and wars, Removal to Indian Territory, the land-allotment period, and the Chickasaw Nation?s revitalization in the second half of the twentieth century.

Item Description:"These articles ... appeared in tribal publications from 1994 into 2005"--Vol. 1, p. vii.
Physical Description:4 v. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780979785818
0979785812
9780979785863
0979785863
9780979785894
0979785898
9781935684077
1935684078