EAST MEETS WEST, WHEN DESCENDENTS OF TWO GREAT NATIONS CAME TOGETHER...WE ARE THE LEGACY LEFT BY OUR CHOCTAW AND AFRICAN ANCESTORS.
THE CHOCTAW INDIANS WERE A PROMINENT SOUTHEASTERN TRIBE OF MUSKHOGEAN STOICK, FORMERLY LOCATED IN GEORGIA AND LATER IN LOUISIANA. THEY WERE THE MOST EXPERT AGRICULTURISTS OF THE SOUTHERN TRIBES.
HAVING CEDED THEIR LANDS TO THE UNITED STATES, THEY BEGAN MOVING TO OKLAHOMA. IN 1832 THEY FORMED THE CHOCTAW NATION AND BECAME ONE OF FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
IN 1906 THEY RECEIVED AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, ABANDONING THEIR TRIBAL ORGANIZATION (EXCLUSIVE OF NEGRO FREEDMAN), THEY WERE ABOUT 15,000 CHOCTAWS IN OKLAHOMA AND 1, 6000 WHO STILL REMAINED EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
THE MUSKOGEE AND MUSKOGEAN, WAS ONE OF A TRIBE OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS THAT FORMERLY OCCUPIED SOME OF THE GULF STATES OF THE UNITED STATES AND FORMED A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE CREEK CONFEDERACY.
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