Apuckshunubbee

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Apuckshunubbee (c. 1740 - October 18, 1824) was a principal chief of the Choctaw Native American tribe. He represented the western or Okla Falaya (Tall People) District. He has been described as "a large man, tall and bony, with a down look, and was of the superstitious and religious cast of mind." cite web
url = http://www.choctawnation.com/History/index.cfm?fuseaction=HArticle&HArticleID=1
title = Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
accessdate = 2008-04-21
author = Earl White
last = White
first = Earl
format = HTML
publisher = Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma] Apuckshunubbee died in Kentucky on his way to Washington D.C. to negotiate for the tribe in 1824. His name was also spelled as Apvkshvnvbbee, Apʊkshʊnʊbbee, Puckshenubbee, Pukshunnubbu, and Pukshunnubbee.

Journey to Washington City

Apuckshunubbee, Pushmataha, and Mosholatubbee, the principle leaders of the Choctaws, went to Washington City (the 19th century name for Washington, D.C.) to discuss encroaching settlement and to seek the expulsion of settlers or financial compensation.cite book
last = Cushman
first = Horatio
title = History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians
origdate = 1899
accessdate = 2008-04-17
publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
page = 149-150
chapter = The Choctaw
id = ISBN 0806131276] Apuckshunubbee was nearly 80 years old when he made the trip to protest violations made against the Treaty of Doak's Stand. He was a chief by 1801 and was a signer of the Treaty of Mount Dexter, Treaty of Fort St. Stephens, and the Treaty of Doak's Stand. The delegation also included Talking Warrior, Red Fort, Nittahkachee, Col. Robert Cole and David Folsom, both half-breed Indians, Captain Daniel McCurtain, and Major John Pitchlynn, the U.S. Interpreter. cite web
url = http://www.choctawnation.com/History/index.cfm?fuseaction=HArticle&HArticleID=1
title = Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
accessdate = 2008-04-17
author = Earl White
last = White
first = Earl
format = HTML
publisher = Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma] The proposed route to Washington was to travel the Natchez trace to Nashville, Tennessee, then to Lexington, Kentucky, o­nward to Maysville, Kentucky, across the Ohio River northward to Chillicothe, Ohio, (former principal town of the Shawnee), then finally east over the “National Highway” to Washington City.

Death

Apuckshunubbee died in Maysville, Kentucky. Apuckshunubbee was reported to have died from a broken neck caused by a fall from a hotel balcony.cite book
last = Cushman
first = Horatio
title = History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians
origdate = 1899
accessdate = 2008-04-21
publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
page = 274
chapter = The Choctaw
id = ISBN 0806131276] Other historians say he fell from a cliff. He died on the way to Washington in November, 1824, and was succeeded by Robert Cole. Peter James Hudson wrote in 1939 that he have was "told by a Mississippi Choctaw that the body of Apvckshvnvbbee was brought back to Mississippi and buried at his home place." cite web
url = http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v017/v017p007.html
title = A Story of the Choctaw Chiefs
accessdate = 2008-08-14
author = Peter James Hudson
last = Hudson
first = Peter
format = HTML
publisher = Chronicles of Oklahoma]

The death of Apuckshunubbee, along with Pushmataha, effectively crippled the Choctaw Nation. His successor was Robert Cole. Within six years the Choctaw were forced to cede their last remaining territory in Mississippi to the United States.

ee also

*Choctaw
*Pushmataha
*Mosholatubbee
*Greenwood LeFlore
*George W. Harkins
*Peter Pitchlynn
*Phillip Martin
*List of Choctaw Treaties

Citations

External links

* [http://www.choctawnation.com/History/index.cfm?fuseaction=HArticle&HArticleID=1 Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: 1830-1857 Apukshunnubbee District]