“Those Chickasaw Freedmen”

Daily Ardmoreite, April 16, 1903 P5C1

In 1903 the Dawes Commission as well as the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations were dealing with the provisions in the Treaty of 1866 regarding the status of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen. 

Despite the history of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations and chattel slavery the citizenship and land allotment issues were all connected to that treaty; this was on the minds of many in the two nations as Oklahoma statehood approached.

Almost one hundred-twenty years later the importance of the Treaty of 1866 and what it represents to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Descendants continues to be an issue about “Those Chickasaw Freedmen.”

Newspaper articles compiled by Terry Ligon “A Century of Chickasaw-Choctaw Freedmen 1840-1940”.