Here is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe
among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a
people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the
South to what is now Oklahoma and whose subsequent efforts from the
Civil War to the close of the century to maintain an autonomous
government and institutions form a distinctive and arresting
chapter in the history of the West.
While the political, social, and economic customs of the
Choctaws were closely circumscribed, the thread of Choctaw history
was at all times closely interwoven witht he larger fabric of
American history as a whole. Choctaw law was a curious combination
of ancient tribal custom and Anglo-American legal practice; Choctaw
churches and schools were copied almost wholly from the white man's
society; and Choctaw economic institutions represented an attempt
to adjust the customs of tribal control of the land to the white
system of individual ownership.
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