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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806984803321

Autore

Osburn Katherine M. B.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-7387-8

0-8032-7389-4

0-8032-7388-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (644 p.)

Collana

Indians of the Southeast

Classificazione

SOC021000HIS028000HIS036120

Disciplina

976.004/97387

Soggetti

Choctaw Indians - Mississippi - History

Choctaw Indians - Mississippi - Government relations

Choctaw Indians - Civil rights - Mississippi

Self-determination, National - Mississippi

Mississippi Race relations

Mississippi Politics and government

Mississippi Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From the First Removal to the Second, 1830-1898; 2. From the Second Removal to Recognition, 1898-1918; 3. Establishment of the Agency, 1918-1930; 4. The Choctaw Agency and the Patronage Economy, 1918-1930; 5. The Depression and the Indian New Deal, 1929-1945; 6. The Choctaw Tribal Council, 1945-1965; 7. Termination, Segregation, and Choctaw Nation Building, 1951-1964; 8. Relocation, Resistance, and Civil Rights, 1951-1964; Epilogue and Conclusions

List of Abbreviations Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Series List

Sommario/riassunto

"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 1950's and 1960's 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.  "--