Category Archives: Choctaw

Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Roberta Estes

This book, by Charles Jones, written in 1873, is extremely interesting and reveals a great deal about the culture of these tribes. There are areas that discuss conjurers, marriage and divorce, government, social relations, tools, burials and documentation of mounds. … Continue reading →

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1837 Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Roberta Estes

Jan. 17, 1837. | 11 Stats., 573. | Proclamation Mar. 24, 1837. Page 486 Articles of convention and agreement made on the seventeenth day of January, 1837, between the undersigned chiefs and commissioners duly appointed and empowered by the Choctaw … Continue reading →

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James Logan Colbert of the Chickasaws and Allied Trader Families

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Roberta Estes

The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Volume XX, No.2, May 1994, pg.82 contains an article titled “James Logan Colbert of the Chickasaw, The Man and the Myth.” This article is reproduced at this link: http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/greybird7/genealogy.html Colbert’s family history says that … Continue reading →

Posted in Catawba, Chickasaw, Choctaw | 82 Comments

American Indian Records on Ancestry

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Recently Ancestry.com added several sets of American Indian records to their collection, and some are free. This link should take you directly to the American Indian Collection search function at Ancestry. This collection includes the following data bases:

Posted in Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Five Civilized Tribes, Freedmen, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Osage, Research, Resources, Seminole | 5 Comments

Tracing Cherokee Ancestors

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Several years, ago – we’re talking in the decades now – before the internet and e-mail….you know, back in the dark ages…I visited the Muskogee County Genealogical Society in Muskogee, OK. I was that certain that my oral family history … Continue reading →

Posted in Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole | 12 Comments

Jack Amos, Choctaw, Newton County, Mississippi

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Jack Amos was born about 1830, a Choctaw Indian, and applied for tribal membership with the Dawes Commission in 1901. He filed a deposition which provides a great deal of information about his family. He lists his parents at full-blood Choctaw, … Continue reading →

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Stand Watie, Cherokee

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Stand Watie (December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871; also known as Standhope Uwatie, Degataga (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ), meaning “stand firm”, and Isaac S. Watie) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army … Continue reading →

Posted in Cherokee, Choctaw, Military, Muscogee, Osage, Seminole | 4 Comments

South Carolina Indian Traders 1750-1754

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Roberta Estes

The study of traders is important to the study of Native American tribes and ancestors. Most, if not all, traders established Native relationships, and by that, I mean marital or intimate relationships. What that means, exactly, depends on the culture … Continue reading →

Posted in Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Savannah, Traders | 22 Comments

Choctaw Nation in 1847 Provides Relief to Irish Famine Victims

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Roberta Estes

On March 23, 1847, the Indians of the Choctaw nation took up a collection. Moved by news of starvation in Ireland, a group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Okla., to raise a relief fund. Despite their meager resources, they collected … Continue reading →

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The Code Talkers

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Roberta Estes

The term Code Talkers is associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native-American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. In particular, there were approximately 400-500 Native Americans in the United … Continue reading →