ALL THINGS CHOCTAW The purpose of " All Things Choctaw " is  - to promote and preserve the culture, history and traditions of the Choctaw people.  To further promote and encourage the genealogical and ancestral  research efforts of all Native Oklahomans. On the Trail of Tears or the forced removal the Choctaw people gave themselves the name OKLA CHAHTA.  The history of the Choctaw people has had many tragedies that could have caused them to give up with a broken spirit, but that never happened. The Okla Chahta continually showed the entire world they could endure and overcome to prosper and progress. The Choctaw Nation of  Oklahoma is the second largest Native American tribe in  Oklahoma and third in the United States.  The Choctaw people are the direct, lineal descendent of the  sovereign  tribal government that once spread out over  much of the southeastern United States before the European colonization.  The majority of the OKLA CHAHTAS live in  ten and one half counties within the original tribal boundaries of the Choctaw Nation. The Choctaw Nation is not a reservation. Congressman Henry Dawes of Massachusetts sponsored a landmark piece of legislation, the General Allotment Act (The Dawes Severalty Act) in 1887. It was designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and to promote the assimilation of Native Americans into American ( White ) society.  It will be the major Indian policy until the 1930s.  Dawe's goal was to create independent farmers out of Indians - give them land for the tools of citizenship. Sadly what remained of Choctaw lands following the Civil War was divided into individual alottments and given to the Choctaws listed in the census of the Dawes Commission in the 1890s. Descendents of the original enrollees make up today's Choctaw tribal citizenship of more that 190,765.

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