Choctaw Team

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Welcome to the Choctaw Team

This team is for those members of the Native Americans Project who are researching and working on profiles of Choctaw individuals or who have an historic interest in the Choctaw People Nation. The scope of the team is pre-contact to present day.

Team Members

• James Kennedy
• Ronald Prentice

Team Goals

Any improvements you can make to the profiles of Choctaw people are welcome, but here are some specific goals we're working towards:

• For each person:
  • All duplicates merged into the final lowest profile ID number. (Remember: in the era before the Choctaw adopted surnames, we use the "Last Name at Birth" field to record their tribe or nation-- i.e., Choctaw.)
  • Sticker (or template if project protected) included on the page
  • All relevant categories are added
  • At least one documented source (Choctaw roll or census, historical document) is listed
  • Parents are correct and documented
  • Biography is cleaned up, free of any GEDCOM junk, Ancestry trees, etc., and ideally has an originally-written written biography.
  • If person is on the Dawes Roll that information is included as:

Dawes Enrollee

Choctaw (category, e.g. By Blood, Freedman, etc.)

Dawes Card Number (number)

Project Sticker

The Native Americans Sticker should be used for profiles of members of the Choctaw tribe who do not require Native American Project Protection. The sticker should be entered below the == Biography== line.

Sample usage:

{{Native American Sticker |tribe=Choctaw}}

... was Choctaw.

Result:

Categories

[[Category:Choctaw]]

others?

Team Links

Research Resources

• Choctaw Research Resources the main project resources page
• Dawes Final Rolls page listing research links for finding enrolled members of the Five Civilized Tribes. See also:
  • Dawes Act page on WikiTree
  • Dawes Census Card page on WikiTree

• Native American Project Page and Native Americans Project Reliable Sources

Notable Profiles

Note: Entries Appear Alphabetically

• Van Barfoot (1919-2012) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

• Choctaw Chiefs index listing page on WikiTree with WikiTree ID links where available.
  • Apukshunnubbee (1740-1824)
  • Mushulatubbee (1750-1838)
  • Pushmataha (1725-1824)

• Czarina Madelaine (Colbert) Conlan (1871-1958) An American Indian historian, and the first woman to represent the Choctaw Nation in Washington D.C.

• Rosella Hightower (1920–2008) was an American ballerina who achieved fame in both the United States and Europe.

• Joseph Oklahombi (1895-1960) One of the original 19 Choctaw Code Talkers, recognized as Oklahoma's greatest war hero of World War I.

• William Grady Stigler (1891-1952) U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 2nd District, 1943-1952

• Wilma Victor (1919-1987) In 1971, Victor was appointed special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton. At the time, she was the highest ranking Native American woman in U.S. Federal Government. She advised the secretary on Indian affairs.