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Overton James was Governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1963 to 1987. Born July 21, 1925 in Bromide, Oklahoma to Chickasaw parents, Rufus (Cub) James and Vinnie May Seely, he was raised in Wapanucka, Oklahoma. His Chickasaw name is Itoahtubbi. [1] After graduation from high school in Wapanucka, James spent two and a half years in the U.S. Navy.
Charles David Carter was born near Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Carter moved with his father to Mill Creek, a stage stand on the western frontier of the Chickasaw Nation, in April 1876. Carter was of Chickasaw and Cherokee descent. [1] He attended the Indian day schools and Chickasaw Manual Training Academy at ...
Charles W. Blackwell (July 30, 1942 – January 2, 2013, Chickasaw Nation) was an American lawyer, educator, activist, and diplomat, who served as the first Ambassador of the Chickasaw Nation to the United States of America, from 1995 until his death in 2013. [1]
Douglas Hancock Cooper Johnston (October 16, 1856 – June 28, 1939, Chickasaw), also known as "Douglas Henry Johnston", was a tribal leader who served as the last elected governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to 1902. He was re-elected in 1904.
The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha IÌ yaakni) is a federally recognized Indigenous nation with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States.The Chickasaw Nation descends from an Indigenous population historically located in the southeastern United States, including present-day northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [1]
He served as the nation's Superintendent of Schools between 1885 and 1889. In 1897, he signed the Atoka Agreement which began the process of allotting the Chickasaw Nation's Reservation. [1] He was elected as the governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1894 to 1896 and 1902 to 1904. [2] He died in 1908 in Bromide, Oklahoma. [1]
William C. Thompson was born on February 6, 1839, into a mixed-race family who identified primarily as Choctaw and Chickasaw but also had European-American ancestry. He was born at Fort Towson on the southern border of Choctaw Nation, several years after the people were removed there.
Carter County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,003. [1] Its county seat is Ardmore. [2] The county was named for Captain Ben W. Carter, a Cherokee who lived among the Chickasaw. [3] Carter County is part of the Ardmore Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is also a part of the Texoma region.