Moshulatubbee Choctaw
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Moshulatubbee Choctaw (abt. 1765 - 1838)

Chief Moshulatubbee "Mushulatubee" Choctaw
Born about in New Francemap
Son of [uncertain] and [mother unknown]
Brother of , and
Husband of — married 1793 in Choctaw, Mississippi, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , and
Died at about age 73 in Indian Territory, United Statesmap
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Biography

Chief Moshulatubbee Choctaw served in the War of 1812
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Unit(s): Indian Troops
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Chief Moshulatubbee Choctaw served with the unknown during the Creek War
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Notables Project
Moshulatubbee Choctaw is Notable.

Moshulatubbee was the chief of the Choctaw Okla Tannap ("Lower Towns"), one of the three major Choctaw divisions during the early 19th century. While he won renown as a warrior for his exploits against the Osage, he gained more influence through his service in the Creek War of 1813-14 and at the battle of New Orleans with Andrew Jackson.[1] He was a noted orator with a powerful build and possessed great personal magnetism that attracted supporters and detractors. While he prospered as a farmer and slave owner, raising cattle, hogs and horses, he also influenced the Choctaw shift toward a market economy.[2]

Although Moshulatubbee supported the educational efforts of the missionaries, he opposed their religious activities and helped establish the Choctaw Academy in traditionalists who opposed Greenwood LeFlore's efforts to control the Choctaw Nation with his more progressive, cosmopolitan, and predominantly mixed-blood faction. Moshulatubbee was replaced by David Folsom as district chief in 1826, but he regained the office in 1830 during the removal crises.[2]

He emigrated west to Indian Territory in 1832, continued his resistance to missionaries, signed the Fort Holmes treaty in 1835, and served as district chief until 1836. Moshulatubbee died of smallpox, August 30, 1838,[3] near the Choctaw Agency on the Arkansas River and is buried in LeFlore County, Oklahoma.

Political Career

Pre Removal

Moshulatubbee replaced his deceased uncle as chief of the Okla Tannip district prior to the War of 1812. He continued on as leader to that district up through removal and participating in all treaty negotiations during that time.

  • Doak's Stand 1820
  • Dancing Rabbit Creek 1830[4]

U.S. Congressional Campaign

"During the discussion in Congress of Jackson's Indian Removal Bill, the people of Mississippi, to win the favor of the Choctaw, made a gesture conferring citizenship upon them; and induced chief Mushulatubbe to announce himself in the April issue of the Port Gibson Correspondent as a candidate for Congress."[3]

"To the voters of Mississippi. Fellow Citizens:-I have fought for you, I have been by your own act, made a citizen of your state; ... According to your laws I am an American citizen, ... I have always battled on the side of this republic ... I have been told by my white brethren, that the pen of history is impartial, and that in after years, our forlorn kindred will have justice and 'mercy too'."
~ Mushulatubba, Christian Mirror and N.H. Observer, July 1830

Post Removal

He emigrated west to Indian Territory in 1832, as detailed in his son McKee King's 1875 deposition, continued his resistance to missionaries,[5] signed the Fort Holmes treaty in 1835, and served as district chief until 1836.

Preceded by
Historic Chiefs
Apukshunnubbee & Pushmataha		 Moshulatubbee
Chief
of the Choctaw
Choctaw
1830—1836		 Succeeded by
Chief
Alford Wade

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
MOSHULATUBBE

1830 - 1834 During Removal 1834 - 1836 New District

Portrait by George Catlin ca 1834

This was copied from a headstone at Hall Cemetery near Cameron, Oklahoma. It was placed by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1965.

Chief Moshulatubbee Amosholi-T-vbi "Warrior Who Perseveres" Born 1770

Chief Moshulatubbee of Northern district, Choctaw Nation in Mississippi, received his name as a young warrior. He was dignified in bearing, of fine physique, steady and thoughtful in disposition. As Chief he was noted for his orders banning liquor traffic and drinking in his county. He strongly favored education, and a mission school (ABCFM) was located at this prairie village near the Natchez Trace in 1824. Moshulatubbee was o­ne of the three head chiefs who signed the early Choctaw treaties with the United States, including that at Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830, which provided for the removal of the Choctaws from Mississippi. He had high hopes in coming west with his people in 1832, and made his new home in LeFlore County. He died at his home and was buried nearby, his grave covered in unmarked stones. The region from the Arkansas River to the Winding Stair Mountains was called Moshulatubbee District in law books of the Choctaw Nation, 1834 to 1907.
~ From Choctaw Nuggets by Pat Starbuck[6]

Portrait
"The CHOCTAWS, ...In this tribe I painted the portrait of their famous and excellent chief, Mo-sho-la-tub-bee (he who puts out and kills, PLATE 221), who has since died of the small-pox."
~ George Catlin[7]

Origins and Family

The exact birth date of Moshulatubbee is not known. Upon his death in 1838 it was reported that he was 75 to 80 years old, making his birth ca 1758-1763.

During this epidemic there occurred near the Choctaw agency the death of Mushulatubbe, the famous chief. He died August 30, 1838, at the age of seventy-five or eighty years.
~ letter from Coleman Cole to Lyman C. Draper [3]

Parents

The exact parentage of Moshulatubbee is not known. It has been reported in U.S. Government documents that he is the "son of Moshulatubbee" and this is repeated by Horatio Cushman.

"Article 14th. — Whereas the father of the beloved chief Mushulatubbee (original Mosholatubil, with whom I was personally acquainted), of the lower towns, for and during his life, did receive from the United States the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, annually;' it is hereby stipulated, that his son and successor Mushulatubbee, shall annually be paid the same amount during his natural life, to commence from the ratification of this treaty."
~ Horatio Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians pgs 117-118[8]

However, Angie Debo states that It is also as likely that was the nephew of his predecessor, due to the matrilineal nature of Choctaw society.

"The Treaty of 1805 carried the first provision for a permanent tribal income, ...District Chiefs, Apukshunnubbee, Pushmataha, and Moshulatubbee, should each receive a cash payment... Moshulatubbee soon died. The date is unknown, but by the time of the War of 1812 he had been succeeded by a Chief of the same name, designated by white officials as his "son," but more probably his nephew;"
~ Angie Debow, The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic pgs 34-36[5]

Spouses and Children

Documentation as to the wives and children of Moshulatubbee has been found in first person reports of those who knew the family. It is certain that he had more than one spouse in a plural marriage. Below are the reported spouses, and the most likely children with each spouse. Care has been taken to create as accurate a listing as possible. However, this is not a definitive list and corrections are welcomed.

Note: For a further discussion of the immediate family and other potential children, or those refuted as spouses and children, please visit the page Chief Mushulatubee Family Relationships.

Children's Surname: his children began to use the surname King at school age, the English translation of the title Mingo given to a district chief.

  1. Maleah
    • Charles King[3][9][10]
    • Peter King[3][9][10]
    • Susan King (Cooper)[10]
    • Girl King (died age 7 of burns as related by Susan King to niece Lucy)[10]
  2. Onamaiya

Spelling Variations

As with many Choctaw, Moshulatubbee used different names during his lifetime, although most commonly known to history as Mushulatubbee or Moshulatubbee and it is the latter spelling of his name from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma which should be used except when quoting from a source.

Other names and spelling variations appear below:

  • Moshulatubbe, Mushulatubbe, Mosholetvbbi, Musholatubbee, Moshaleh Tubbee, Mushulatubba
  • AmoshuliTvbi, Amosholi-Tvbi, Amosholi-T-vbi
  • Homomastubby

Sources

  1. ↑ Fold3, War of 1812 Service Record Index, General Mushuletubbe, https://www.fold3.com/image/309304597, (/title/875/war-of-1812-service-record-index :accessed June 20, 2020), database and images, https://www.fold3.com/title/875/war-of-1812-service-record-index NARA M602_0151
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 James P. Pate, "Moshulatubbe," The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MO025.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Foreman, Grant, and John R. Swanton. The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. pgs 49- 50
  4. ↑ DeRosier, Arthur H. The Removal of the Choctaw Indians. Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1989.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Debo, Angie. The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1934. pgs 36, 40-41, 49 ff, 58, 64, 65, 69, 151
  6. ↑ Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: Moshulatubbe
  7. ↑ Catlin, George, and Marjorie M. Halpin. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians. Dover Publications, 1973. Vol II pg 123
  8. ↑ Cushman, Horatio B. History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. Headlight Printing House, Greenville, TX, 1899. pgs 117-118 https://archive.org/details/histchoctaw00cushrich
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Aiden C. Gibbs, Assistant Missionary/teacher at Elliot Mission, reports on children of Moshulatubbee to the American Baptist Board ca 1825, specific source pending.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Choctaw-Chickasaw Citizenship Court Case Files, Case 39. NARA 7RA324, Roll 13, OHS.

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Research Note

There is a wonderful biographical sketch attached as a pdf to a profile of Moshulatubbee on another website. This biography was written by Wanda L. Clark and shows a date "Revised 01 March 2000" but the pdf does not contain a bibliography and sources are referenced but not listed. The document is worth your time to review, and if the original can be located it would provide a valuable source for this profile.





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Mosholatubbee by George Catlin
Mosholatubbee by George Catlin


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Randolph-4343 L S Randolph
George Catlin, Mó-sho-la-túb-bee, He Who Puts Out and Kills, Chief of the Tribe, 1834, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.294

George Catlin described this man as a “famous and excellent chief” of the Choctaw, and painted his portrait at Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory, in 1834. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 49, 1841; reprint 1973)[1]

posted by L S Randolph
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Could one of the profile managers please change his last name at birth to Choctaw? See Ron's comment below. Thanks.
posted on Moshulatubee-1 (merged) by Jillaine Smith
Simpkins-380 Debra Simpkins
Please advise.....

Mushulatubbee Lewallen (Lewallen-58) and Moshulatubee King (Moshulatubee-1) are already connected in a proposed merge

posted on Lewallen-58 (merged) by Debra Simpkins

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