Choctaw Indian History (also Chickasaw and Natchez)

Description: History ofThe Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez IndiansBy H. B. Cushman 1899 607 pages - Bonus Book -Life Among the Choctaw Indiansand Sketches of the Southwest Henry C. Benson, 1860314 pages, searchable - Bonus Book #2 -Oklahoma Indian Territory MarriagesBook A, Choctaw Nation 1890-1891344 pages, searchable - Bonus Book #3 -A Dictionary of the Choctaw LanguageCyrus Byington, 1915636 pages, searchable ******************************************************************************Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher to View; or MAC AccessAutoboot Menu for Easy PC Access; Manually open files on MAC****************************************************************************** The Choctaw were descendants of the Mississippian culture and Hopewellian people, who lived throughout the east of the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries. The early Spanish explorers of the 16th century encountered their ancestors. In the 19th century, the Choctaw were known as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" because they adopted and integrated numerous cultural and technological practices of their European American colonial neighbors. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are the two primary Choctaw associations today, although smaller Choctaw groups are located in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. During the American Revolution, most Choctaw supported the Thirteen Colonies' bid for independence from the British Crown. The Choctaw and the United States agreed to nine treaties. The last three treaties (Treaty of Doak's Stand, Washington City, and Dancing Rabbit) were designed to deracinate most Choctaw west of the Mississippi River. U.S. President Andrew Jackson made the Choctaw exile a model of Indian removal. They were the first Native Americans to walk the Trail of Tears. The Choctaw were exiled (to the area now called Oklahoma) because the U.S. desired to expand territory available for settlement to European Americans[5], wanted to save them from extinction, and wanted to acquire their natural resources. Please Note - the Choctaw Marriages Book has some faint pages which are difficult to read entirely. CONTENTS-Life Among The Choctaw Indians. Preface Page 3 Introduction 7 CHAPTER I. Border Indians — Colonization — Names of tribes — Necessity for Removal — Effects thereof — Numbers — Territory oc- cupied — Choctaws and Chickasaws 21 CHAPTER II. Government — Their constitution — Religious toleration — Civil rights — Laws — Now printed — Punishments — Anecdote 27 CHAPTER III. Social habits — Marriage — Settlements — Employments — Food — Slave- holding — Use of tobacco 31 CHAPTER IV. Education — Schools — Choctaw Academy — Its influence — Mission schools — School fund — Books used — Choctaw literature — Indian lecture 30 CHAPTER V. The country — Its size — Natural products — Stock grazing — Surface — Winters— Storms 42 CHAPTER VI. Condition of the Choctaws on their removal — Trials endured in their new settlement — Necessity for Christian civilization gener- ally felt 40 CHAPTER VII. Choctaw cliaractcr — Purity of blood — Intermarriages rare — Inter- course with other tribes — Indian names — Fashions — Personal ap- jicarancc — Women Page 60 CHAPTER VIII. New School system — Methodist mission — Travels of Missionary Sec- retary, Rev. E. R. Ames — Establishment of a school system — Seminaries founded — Appropriation for the mission schools 56 CHAPTER IX. Fort Coffee Academy — Appointment of teachers — Rev. William II. Goode and the author transferred to the new mission — School buildings — Site of the village — Arrival of Mr. Goode — Prayer meeting — Repairs of school-houses — Outdoor labors 63 CHAPTER X. Journey to the Indian country — Voyage down the river — Southern plantation — Aspects of slavery — Napoleon — Swamps and muske- toes — Incidents — Preaching on Sabbath — On the Arkansas river — Arkansas port — French merchant — Improvements — Little Rock — Van Buren and Fort Smith — Their location and importance — Slaveholding — Arrival at Fort Coffee 70 CHAPTER XI. Arrival at Fort Coffee — Absence of Mr. Goode — Mission family — AVork begun — Agricultural labor — Difficulties 85 CHAPTER XII. The mission — Heathenish darkness — Class meetings — Sunday — Re- flections — Native cordiality — Effects of Christian teachings 90 CHAPTER XIII. Neighbors — Mission reservations — Jones, an Indian resident — His slave, old Hannah — Now ideas slowly infused — Trade with Jones — His habits — Cornelius Macann — Mr. Ring — Major Armstrong — Mr. Wilson - 95 CHAPTER XIV. Distinguished men — Hon. Nat Folsom — William Kiddle — Colonel Thomson McKenny — lion. J. Fletcher — Colonel Peter P. Pitch- lynn — lion. Peter Folsom — Colonel S. Jones — Titular dignitaries — Anecdote Page 101 CHAPTER XV. Fourth of July celebration — Journey to Fort Smith — The arrange- ments — Return — Mr. Heald — Anecdotes — Cane-brakes — The car- penter leaves — Employes dismissed — Fishing — Anecdote 107 CHAPTER XVI. Provisions spoiled — Repairing damages — Sold — Incident — Massard Prairie — Meeting held there — Class formed — Residents 113 CHAPTER XVII. Indian camp meeting — Going to it — Getting directions — Through the wilderness — Site of the meeting — At camp — Preaching — The congregation — Progress of the meeting — Results — Meeting at New Hope — Romance 120 CHAPTER XVIII. Visit to Fort Smith — Holding meeting — ^The congregation — Drunk- enness — Preaching at Massard — A freshet — Crossing the river — The ferryman — The return 129 CHAPTER XIX. Camp meeting on the border — Mountain ride — Halting for the night — Resuming the journey — Arrival at camp — Its appear- ance — Employments — The meeting — Incidents — Sacrament — clothes — Return — Incidents and Accidents — Sickness 1.38 CHAPTER XX. Choctaw wedding — Bridal party — Festivities — Seminoles — A Choc- taw's opinion of them — Presbyterian mission among them — Til success — Abandonment of the mission 11'.' CHAPTER XXI. Indian games — Ball-playing — General interest in it — Match games — Playing them — Their interfering with religious meetings — Inci- dent Page 153 CHAPTER XXII. Murder of Mr. Vore and family — Particulars of the murder — The criminals advertised — Intercourse between the tribes — Repairs at the mission house — Workmen employed — Our teamster — Intoxi- cated — Dismissed — The author turning laborer — Effects 157 CHAPTER XXIII. Rev. John Page, a Choctaw preacher — His history — Boyhood — In- struction — Conversion — Licensed to preach — Admitted into confer- ence — Missionary to his people — Personal appearance — Hold meet- ing with him — Attending conference — The route — Timber — Lynch law — White Oak Mountains — Sketches along the way — The doc- tor — Conference — Missionary meeting — Return to the mission — Mr. and Mrs. Goode — Retrospect of the year — Arrival of the mission family 162 CHAPTER XXIV. Indian annuities — On guard — Fears of robbery — The weapons — Mr. Irwin's death — His character — Funeral — Relieved from duty as guard 172 CHAPTER XXV. Quarterly meeting — Quarterly conference — Goods not arrived — In search of them — Hon. Samuel Adams — Kindness — Assistance — Obtaining of the goods — Waiting for a rise in the river — Ozark village — Inhabitants — Preaching on Sunday — Arrival of boat — Return homo — Visit from a Cherokee 170 CHAPTER XXVI. Conks leave — Employment of a colored man and family — Farm en- larged— Appointments of Mr. Page— Work of the author 183 CHAPTER XXVII. Opening of the Academy — Trustees — Pupils received — Native cloth- ing — School Outfit — Anecdote — Indian names — Other names giv- en — Instruction — Incident — Talker Page ISG CHAPTER XXVIII. School duties — The premises — Daily exercises — Saturday labors and recreation — Changes of clothing — Sunday exercises — Requisitions in the school — Character of the lads — Punishments — Marble-play- ing forbidden 191 CHAPTER XXIX. Freshets in the streams — Overflowing of low grounds — Inundation of farms and houses — Pt. Ayesley Browning — Stopped by the floods from reaching his appointment — Returns to St. Louis — Fishing — Fishes taken 197 CHAPTER XXX. Religious awakening — Mr. Page's influence — Prayer meetings — Sev- eral of the lads become pious — Admitted into Church — Examina- tions — Summer vacation — Visit to Massard — Incidents — Illustra- tion of slavery — Holding meeting — Administering the sacrament — Baptisms by immersion — Appointment to preach — A Chickasaw woman 202 CHAPTER XXXI. Quapaws — One of them, with his wife, visits the school — Villiers — His character — History — Personal appearance — Pronunciation of the name Arkansas 209 CHAPTER XXXII. Ball — Cornelius Macann — Parricide — The murderer — Tried and con- victed — Escapes — Criminal Trials — Suicide — Isaac McKee — His su- icide — The motive — Homicide of Lewis Calvin by Captain Rid- dle — The occasion of the killing — Riddle's remorse — His sickness and death 213 CHAPTER XXXIII. The Academy — Second year — Return of the pupils — Visitors — Choc- taw customs — Language and peculiarities — Temperance society — ■ Discussions — Signing the pledge — Incident Page 221 CHAPTER XXXIV. Indian Mission conference — Traveling to Tahlequah — Cherokee civ- ilization — Agriculture — Customs of the nation — Fairfield — Presby- terian mission — Dr. Butler and the mission family — Park Hill mis- sion — Mr. "Worcester — Miss Thompson — Her self-devotion 227 CHAPTER XXXV. Persecuted missionaries — Mr. Worcester and Dr. Butler — Georgia tyranny — Arrest and imprisonment of the missionaries — Cruelty to the missionaries — Sentenced to imprisonment — Appeal to the Supreme Court — Georgia sentence reversed — Insolence of the Georgia ofiSeials — Final restoration to liberty — Christian forgive- ness — Missionary sacrifices .. 235 CHAPTER XXXVI. Conference session — Admission to the conference — Mr. Hurlburt — Division of the Church — Convention of southern preachers — Elec- tion of delegates to the Convention — Conference Missionary Soci- ety — Bishop Morris 240 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Cherokee capital — Park Hill — lion. John Ross and brother — Wm. P. Ross — Mrs. Wolf — Cherokee alphabet — The language — Invention of an alphabet — George Guess — His character — Death — Influence of his invention — Anecdote — Incident 24-4 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Political strife and discord — Captain Ridge — Captain Rogers — Their contentions — John Ross — The return home — Dwight mission — Tho mission family — Interview — New appointments of preachers — J. C. Berryman — Learner B. Stateler — Isaac F. Collins 252 CHAPTER XXXIX. Death of Oakchiah — Sketch of his life — Conversion — Persecutions — Becomes preacher — Opposed by his father — Incident — His father's conversion — Licensed to preach — Ordained — Labors — Sickness — Circumstances of his death — Personal appearance Page 259 CHAPTER XL. Progress in study — Cultivation — Rapid improvement — Moses Porter and Coleman Daniel — Character of the former — His conversion — Taken sick — Incidents — Incidents of his sickness — Death — Re- flections 2G7 CHAPTER XLI Rev. Mr. Fisk, Indian preacher — Visit to the mission — Interesting exercises — Ministerial outfit — Pneumonia — Medical attendance — Visit to Massard — Food — Customs among the people — Fort Smith — Cedar Prairie — Incident 272 CHAPTER XLII. Louisville Convention — Delegates — Preparation for leaving the mis- sion — Division of the Church — Mr. Goode leaves — Mr. Stateler superintendent — Walter A. Duncan — Indian trails — Incident.. 279 CHAPTER XLIII. Contraband traffic — Spirituous liquors— Incident — Indian scrupu- lousness 285 CHAPTER XLIV. A short chapter in itinerant life — Organization of a society — Changeof preacher — Mistake of the people — Their honesty and hos- pitality 288 CHAPTER XLV. Death in the mission — .James Wathin — The funeral — Removal of corpse for interment — Indian ceremonies at funerals — Their mourn- itig customs — Burial of servants 292 CHAPTER XLV I. Our work — New buildings — Neglect of servants — The remedy — Ef- fects — Charles, the cook — Ills peculiarities Page 297 CHAPTER XLVII. Settlement with the superintendent — Preparations to depart — Last service with the scholars — Departure — Reflections — Changes in the school — Reminiscences of Indian characters 302 CHAPTER XLVIII. Sketch of Mrs. Sarah B. Goode — Her birth — Marriage — Religions life — Missionary and itinerant labors — Sickness — Death — Conclusion 308 Check out my other items! 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