Latest posts tagged with #CHOCTAW on Bluesky
Many have heard of the WWII Navajo Code Talkers. I was not aware that there was a group of WWI Choctaw Code Talkers. There are some good backstories in this.
www.choctawnation.com/about/history/code-talke...
#Choctaw #CodeTalkers #WWI #NativeAmericans
In traditional #Choctaw society, serious personal disputes were resolved by an institution called a #Choctaw duel.
Aiahockatubbee, spokesman for the Okla Falaya district chief Moshulatubbee, is recognized as one of the greatest orators in #Choctaw history
It appears that groups of people began leaving the #Choctaw and establishing separate residences and separate identities many years ago, a process that has continued into recent times
Chief Pushmataha led #Choctaw troops against the British in support of Jackson's army at the Battle of New Orleans. Despite #Choctaw loyalty, the United States demanded further land cessions in 1816
The Oklahoma public education system, does not include treatment of the #Choctaw nation in the state's history in its public school curriculum.
Look how the #Choctaw nation blocked #ICE. The nation’s press release has some business BS about “strategic vision”, “support operational growth” & is icing on the cake. The whole thing is as beautiful as the NJ law that has the acronym fuckice if it’s spelled out.
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We owe a debt of gratitude to Native tribes who fight diligently to save our environment. Now, the Choctaw Nation bought a warehouse that ICE was going to house detainees.
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✔ We owe a debt of gratitude to Native tribes. They are in the forefront, advocating for our environment. They've won cases against mining concerns and other extractive industries, including bottled water giants who wanted to drain aquifers for their own profits. And now this. #ICE #Choctaw
The premiere annual event of the Mississippi #Choctaws is the #Choctaw #Indian Fair, a four-day event in July. Established in 1949, the fair draws more than 20,000 visitors each year
THANK YOU #CHOCTAW TRIBAL NATION!
First the #Miccosukee rescued Alligator Alcatraz, and now the #Choctaw are saving a warehouse from becoming another #ICE torture/death camp. We as a nation obviously don't deserve any more help from its natives, but let us all be constantly reminded of how grateful we are for the rest of forever.
Choctaw Nation purchases former Big Lots distribution center
www.kten.com/news/oklahom...
#Oklahoma #Choctaw
The loss of a brother
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The #Choctaw Nation of OK announced Wednesday it has purchased the former Big Lots distribution center in Durant — a 1.24M sf warehouse that had been under informal consideration by #ICE as a potential detention site.
The purchase removes the property, located at 2306 Enterprise Drive, from the...
HUGE thanks and respect to the #Choctaw Nation. 🥰🪶
Americans who lived on #Choctaw land were required to pay taxes, which they considered intolerable. Rather than leave, they clamored for Congress to abolish the #Indian nations
🎉🎉 Thank you, #Choctaw nation. #NoConcentrationCamps #AbolishICE
The missionaries used the Okla Falaya dialect of the #Choctaw language to translate ancient myths of the Hebrews for hymns and other proselytizing materials
The word #Cherokee is believed to have evolved from a #Choctaw word meaning "Cave People." It was picked up and used by Europeans and eventually accepted and adopted by #Cherokees in the form of Tsalagi or Jalagi
New McAlester library to include Choctaw Nation-funded entrepreneur spaces
www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...
#Oklahoma #Choctaw
Aiahockatubbee, spokesman for the Okla Falaya district chief Moshulatubbee, is recognized as one of the greatest orators in #Choctaw history
By 1907, when Oklahoma achieved statehood, the federal government had adopted the position that the #Choctaw nation had ceased to exist. Not until the present generation did the courts begin to uphold some of the #Choctaw claims to national sovereignty
A recent federal court ruling stated that the state of Oklahoma could no longer exercise police powers on #Indian land within the state. As a result the #Choctaw Nation Police were organized.
A pidgin version of the #Choctaw language was used along many of the trading paths as the universal medium of trade communication among a wide assortment of diverse peoples
Throughout the nineteenth century, Mississippi #Choctaws continued to remove to the West, often at the urging of official #Choctaw delegations sent from the West to induce them to join them.
Ireland representatives visit the Choctaw Headquarters
www.kten.com/news/ireland...
#Oklahoma #Choctaw
A 1974 revision of the #Choctaw Nation's Constitution provides for the popular election of the chief to a four-year term
General Andrew Jackson secured the signature of Chief Puckshenubbee, of the Okla Falaya #Choctaw division, to the treaty of 1820 by means of blackmail. The Americans candidly reported the blackmail to the U.S. State Department.
I love these serendipitous wordneighbours in dictionaries - a word for two people riding on the same horse, just there above the word for Ireland #choctaw
