The Chickasaws, (The Civilization of the American Indian series) - Hardcover

Gibson, Arrell Morgan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806109459 ISBN 13: 9780806109459

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971

Synopsis

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.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Arrell Morgan Gibson (1921–1987) was the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of many books on western history, including The Chickasaws, The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0806109459
• ISBN 13: 9780806109459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312