Comparing The Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma

A general history of Native Americans has been a part of my education for as long as I can remember. I remember how during the week before Thanksgiving, my 1st grade class did a skit about the “First Thanksgiving”. In order to look like Indians we made vests out of paper grocery bags and crumpled them up to look like leather and drew on them with crayons. When I think of my education of Native American culture, I think of going to North Pacific Reservations and seeing 10-12 ft tall totem poles with the shapes of animals carved into them. Most of the Native American tribes that I have learned about have been Western United States tribes because I grew up in California. When I read the list of Wisconsin Native

The Chickasaw Tribe was named after a Chickasaw Leader named Chikasha. The story is that two brothers Chata and Chickasha who were leaders and they split in different directions and the people that followed them was given the tribal name of Choctaw and Chickasaw.

The Choctaw Indians were an important tribe, and the largest of the Muskogean tribes. The Choctaws have two stories about their origins in their traditional homeland in central Mississippi. One is that their ancestors came from west of the Mississippi River and settled in what is now the homeland. The other is that the tribe is descended from ancestors who were formed by a spirit from the damp earth of Nanih Waiyah, a large mound in northeastern Mississippi. Either way, the Choctaws resided in places, holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi with adjoining parts of Louisiana.

To begin with, the Cherokee tribe was one of the three primary Native American tribes in South Carolina that called themselves “the real people.” Upward in the mountains, they lived in these villages called “longhouses.” For the girls, their daily lives consisted of doing work in the field, planting and hoeing corn, then harvesting it. On the other hand, the boy’s daily lives consisted of being taught to fish and hunt. Their food was examples of fruits, nuts, corn, pole beans, squash, pumpkins, bottle gourds, and tobacco. Next, the Catawba tribe was another one of the three primary Native American tribes in South Carolina that called themselves the “river people. They used Carolina clay to make their pottery which they were known for. The Catawba dwellers lived in villages that had an open rounding on the top. The Catawbas were primarily farmers because every day they planted crops by the river, fished and hunted. Therefore, the Yemassee tribe was the third primary tribe in South Carolina that was from Spanish Florida. Throughout the summer, they lived on a beach, staying in Wigwams concealed in palmetto leaves. However, during the fall, winter, and spring they stayed in wattle and daub homes with a roof of leaves like the Cherokee. Every day they would eat clams which were part of their diet and equip the land for crops. Women were obligated for child rearing, making clothes, and served food and the men congregated the rest of the food in fishing and hunting.

The Wampanoag and Cherokee were two native Indian American tribes that had remarkable stories to American history in the 1600s and 1800s. At that time, they were two native Indian American tribes that did intensive interaction and built great relationships with European Americans who just came and started to live in the new world. The Wampanoag succeed to maintain their relationship with the European Americans for fifty years. In line with the Wampanoag, the Cherokee also maintained their relationship with European Americans for a long decades. Unfortunately, with the greediness of territories, lands, economic, politic as the superior group, the European Americans expelled the Wampanoag and Cherokee from their own lands. The European Americans

The Cherokee tribe is known as one of the earliest and largest Indian tribe in North America. They are federally recognized even today among several states(museum). While they slowly became Americanized by the Europeans who came over to America, some still practice their typical Indian rituals publicly today. Most converted to Christianity and their government in Oklahoma is based off the American government with three branches. One would believe that the Trail of Tears could have completely vanquished these Indians but many made it through the horrendous trial and kept the Indian bloodline going even present day (Conley).

One famous Indian tribe is the Cherokee. The Cherokee are original residents of the American southwest region, but now they occupy most of Oklahoma.There are three recognized Cherokee tribes. Most Cherokee people speak English today, but many still speak the Cherokee language. Children had jobs to do after school just like men and women had their own jobs. Many Cherokee Indians died when president Andrew Jackson forced them to leave their homes in Georgia. In the following essay I will be talking about the Cherokee life before,during,and after the Westward Expansion.

In the 1800’s tensions were rising between the whites and Indians over land. One of the Indian tribes called the Cherokee would be forced to leave their land due to a law passed by Congress called the Indian Removal Act, which detailed the relocation of Indian tribes to a new territory. Because of the law being passed, The Cherokee nation decided to make a strong case to the United States court for keeping their land in Georgia and North Carolina. In their plea to the government, the Cherokee people focused preserving the land of their ancestors and reminding the United States government, they were an independent nation whose rights should be protected under the law.

Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800’s. Some Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west on their own and settled in other areas of the country. A group known as the Old Settlers previously had voluntarily moved in 1817 to lands given them in Arkansas where they established a government and a peaceful way of life. Later, however, they were forced to migrate to Indian Territory.

The Choctaws have always been a resourceful and independent people. Having adapted to the harsh environment that is the United States, most of their current 89 000 members are doing well. Some of them live on reservations, others on trust land, but most choose to live in the city. The Oklahoma tribe, currently led by Gary Batton, owns seven casinos, among many other businesses, and their culture is largely intact.    

For my stencil design, I chose to draw a highly contrasted cherokee chief with bold capitalized words saying ‘WE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN’ blatantly placed in the center. I made the drawing highly contrasted so that the stencil design could be recognizable through only the shadows of the chief. I made the words capitalized to draw attention, and white so that it contrasts the image. The reason why I chose to draw the chief was due to the Native Americans being a “forgotten people”. They are ignored and there is no attention being focused on the racism and erasure of the Native people.

Before one of my father's greatest friends had died, he told about the story of my parents and how they became part of the Lakota tribe. My father had died without a chance to finish his journal so I have taken it into my hands to finish the journal. As far as I'm concerned, being the eldest means I've know more about his life experience than the others.

Feletie was born of royal blood in the Choctaw Tribe in Madagascar. Nearly nineteen years of age, her tribe was flourishing, rich with culture as well as people. Her people were getting healed from the sickness that took out a great number of her people, including her parents. Young as she might be, she was ruling over her people well. “Sal alles goed wees,” she reassured her people. In her head she repeated, all will be well. At a young age her parents had taught her to speak English. Few Choctaw people spoke this language. They viewed it as demonic since it came from the white men. Never before had Feletie seen white men, only gut wrenching stories of the torment her ouers went through. She snarled at the sheer thought of what her people

I’ve learned over the years that my mother, sister, and I are all American Cherokee Indian. My “Greatest” great-grandmother, what i like to call her, followed the culture of Cherokee Indians. She believed in magic, spirits, and veneration of her ancestors, Although I didn’t get to speak to her much about her history and culture often, I tell how much she wanted my mother and her children to embrace and never forget where we come from. To be exact from my knowledge my ancestors move up to New York and continued their lives here. This is where my mother was born and raised. Unfortunately I’ve never met my grandmother, my mother’s mom but I’ve heard she was a heartwarming lively woman about who she was. My mother doesn’t follow right after my

In Circe Sturm’s novel “Blood Politics: Races, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma” the history of the Cherokee people is put under a microscope and their obsession with blood percentages is examined in a new light. This new light allows one to draw their own conclusion about the Cherokee people and begin to understand how they have come so far and changed so much. The Cherokee people are an amazing group that has persisted through centuries of slavery, war, disease and more. Before Spanish explores arrived to colonize, the Cherokee people lived in the woodlands of the southeast United States of America, present day Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama(14). They lived here peacefully for many generations before they came into contact with the Europeans. Quickly after meeting the Europeans their lifestyle changed dramatically. Disease and pillaging tore through their population and a once great nation of indigenous peoples was crushed under the boot of European imperialism. Alongside this change in culture came a change in religion. The Cherokee people traded their native religion for one similar to a Christian Baptist, more over they adopted slavery of black people, albeit a slightly modified version. When the Cherokee people were forced out of their native land into Indian Territory, by the Dawes Act which helped Oklahoma achieve statehood at the same time as relocating thousands of natives, some took their new religion and slavery with