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Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries

By: Arrell Morgan Gibson

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Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806117583

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9780806117584

The Chickasaws

By: Arrell M. Gibson

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For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle. Against an ethnohistorical background, the author relates the story of the Chickasaws from their first recorded contacts with Europeans in the lower Mississippi Valley in 1540 to final dissolution of the Chickasaw Nation in 1906. Included are the years of alliance with the British, the dealings with the Americans, and the inevitable removal to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1837 under pressure from settlers in Mississippi and Alabama. Among the significant events in Chickasaw history were the tribe’s surprisingly strong alliance with the South during the Civil War and the federal actions thereafter which eventually resulted in the absorption of the Chickasaw Nation into the emerging state of Oklahoma.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806188642

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9780806188645

Kickapoos

Lords of the Middle Border

By: Arrell M. Gibson

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Kickapoos

Lords of the Middle Border

By: Arrell M. Gibson

The Kickapoo Indians, members of the Algonquian linguistic community, resisted white settlement for more than three hundred years on a front that extended across half a continent. In turn, France, Great Britain, the United States, Spain, and Mexico sought to placate and exploit this fiercely independent people. Eventually forced to remove from their historic homeland to territory west of the Mississippi River, the Kickapoos carried their battle to the plains of the Southwest. Here not only did they wage active and imaginative war, but certain bands became area merchants, acting as middlemen between the Comanche and Kiowa Indians and the United States government. They developed a flourishing trade in plunder and stolen livestock, but their most lucrative "goods" were the white captives whom they obtained from the Comanches and others. In 1873, after several profitable years of raiding in Texas for the Mexican Republic, the Kickapoos reluctantly settled on a reservation in Indian Territory. Corrupt politicians, land swindlers, gamblers, and whisky peddlers preyed on the tribe, and it was not until the twentieth century that the Kickapoos received just treatment at the hands of the United States government.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806112646

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9780806112640

The History of Oklahoma

By: Arrell Morgan Gibson

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0806118830

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Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries

Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries

The Chickasaws

The Chickasaws

Kickapoos

Kickapoos

The History of Oklahoma

The History of Oklahoma

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