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The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw: Chahta Okla) is a Native American reservation [5] occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. [6] At roughly 6,952,960 acres (28,138 km 2; 10,864 sq mi), it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo, exceeding that of the seven smallest U.S. states.
Apuckshunubbee (c. 1740 –1824) was chief of the Okla Falaya (Tall People) district in old Choctaw nation. He died in Kentucky on his way to Washington D.C. to conduct negotiations. Pushmataha (Apushmataha) (1760s–December 24, 1824) was a chief in old Choctaw nation. He negotiated treaties with the United States and fought on the American's ...
Gary Dale Batton (born December 15, 1966) is a tribal administrator and politician, the current and 47th Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. [1] It is the third-largest federally recognized tribe and second-largest reservation in total area.
Aug. 14—The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma details the Success through Academic Recognition incentive program for Choctaw students nationwide who are enrolled in grades 2nd through 12th. 1 What is ...
Jackson McCurtain was born in Mississippi on March 4, 1830, to Cornelius McCurtain and Mahayia Nelson. He fought in the American Civil War serving as a captain in the Confederate First Regiment of Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles and later as a lieutenant colonel in the First Choctaw Battalion. [1]
Apukshunnubbee District covered the southeastern one-third of the Choctaw Nation. The districts were established when the Choctaw Nation relocated via the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory—present-day Oklahoma. They were originally intended to be homelands for settlers from the three major clans or divisions of the Choctaw comprising the ...