Land, Property, and the Chickasaws: The Indian Territory Experience
Description:
At a very early date, it must have been apparent to the Chickasaws that their only hope of survival in the face of a steadily encroaching white man's world would be to imitate and emulate the latter's society, his Constitution, and his laws. Long before Andrew Jackson signed the Removal Act destined to uproot large numbers of peoples and result in some of the greatest mass migrations in the history of the United States, the Chickasaws, largely by a process of trial and error, attempted to sow t…
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Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Graffham, Beverly Jean Wood
Partner:
UNT Libraries