List of Choctaw chiefs

List of Choctaw chiefs

List of Choctaw chiefs is a collection of leaders who served the Choctaws while they were still in Mississippi and later Oklahoma.

The Original Three Divisions

The Choctaw Nation, in what is now Mississippi & Alabama, was divided into three regions: Okla Hannali, Okla Falaya, and Okla Tannip.

Okla Hannali (Six Towns)

* Pushmataha
* Oklahoma or Tapenahomma (Nephew of Pushmataha)
* General Hummingbird
* Sam Garland

Okla Falaya

* Apukshunnubbee
* Robert Cole
* Greenwood Leflore

Okla Tannip

* Homastubbee
* Moshulatubbee
* David Folsom

District Chiefs in the New Indian Territory

After removal, the Choctaws set up their government also divided up in three regions: Apukshunnubbee, Moshulatubbee, and Pushmataha. The regions were named after the three influential Choctaw leaders of the "old country."

Moshulatubbee District

* Moshulatubbee..............1834-1836
* Joseph Kincaid.............1836-1838
* John McKinney..............1838-1842
* Nathaniel Folsom...........1842-1846
* Peter Folsom...............1846-1850
* Cornelius McCurtain........1850-1854
* David McCoy................1854-1857

Apukshunnubbee District

* Thomas LeFlore.............1834-1838
* James Fletcher.............1838-1842
* Thomas LeFlore.............1842-1850
* George Harkins.............1850-1857

Pushmataha District

* Nitakechi..................1834-1838
* Pierre Juzan...............1838-1841
* Isaac Folsom...............1841-1846
* Nitakechi.......................Died
* Salas Fisher...............1846-1854
* George Folsom..............1850-1854
* Nicholas Cochnauer.........1854-1857

Unified leadership as Governor

* Alfred Wade..................1857-1858
* Tandy Walker.................1858-1859
* Brazil LeFlore...............1859-1860

Provisional Chiefs

* George Hudson..............1860-1862
* Samuel Garland.............1862-1864
* Peter Pitchlynn............1864-1866
* Allen Wright...............1866-1870
* William Bryant.............1870-1874
* Coleman Cole...............1874-1878
* Isaac Garvin...............1878-1880
* Jack McCurtain.............1880-1884
* Edmund McCurtain...........1884-1886
* Thompson McKinney..........1886-1888
* Ben Smallwood..............1888-1890
* Wilson Jones...............1890-1894
* Jefferson Gardner..........1894-1896
* Green McCurtain............1896-1900
* Gilbert Dukes..............1900-1902

The Choctaw Nation was discontinued in 1906.

Choctaw Nation "token" government

Chiefs were appointed by the U.S. President after dissolution of the Choctaw nation.

* Green McCurtain..............1902-1910 Appointed by President
* Victor Locke, Jr.............1910-1918 Appointed by President Howard Taft
* William F. Sample............1918-1922 Appointed by President Woodrow Wilson
* William H. Harrison..........1922-1929 Appointed by President Warren G.Harding
* Ben Dwight...................1930-1936 Appointed by President Herbert Hoover
* William Durant...............1937-1948 Appointed by President
* Harry J.W. Belvin............1948-1975 Appointed by President

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma & the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Indian termination policy was a policy that the United States Congress legislated in 1953 to assimilate the Native American communities with mainstream America. In 1959, the Choctaw Termination Act was passed.cite web
url = http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=96
title = U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 108, 83rd Congress, 1953. (U.S. Statutes at Large, 67: B132.)
publisher = Digital History
accessdate = 2008-05-02] Unless repealed by the federal government, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma would effectively be terminated as a sovereign nation as of August 25, 1970.

In 1945, lands in Neshoba County, Mississippi and the surrounding counties were set aside as a federal Indian reservation. There are eight communities of reservation land: Bogue Chitto, Bogue Homa, Conehatta, Crystal Ridge, Pearl River, Red Water, Tucker, and Standing Pine. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 allowed the Mississippi Choctaws to become re-organized on April 20, 1945 as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

* Harry J.W. Belvin..........1971-1975
* C. David Gardner...........1975-1978
* Hollis E. Roberts..........1978-1997
* Gregory E. Pyle............1997-Present

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

* Joe Chitto
* Emmette York
* Calvin Isaac
* Phillip Martin.............1978-2007
* Beasley Denson.............1997-Present

ee also

* Choctaw
* Choctaw Culture
* Choctaw mythology
* Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
* Choctaw Trail of Tears
* Gallery of Choctaw Native Americans
* Gideon Lincecum
* Jena Band of Choctaw Indians
* List of Choctaw Treaties
* Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
* MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

References

Notes

External links

* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~treetop/Choctaw/JONES%20CHIEFS.htm Choctaw chiefs]


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