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Below is a list of suggested readings related to the Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen communities.

Check the list often because new items will be added.

  • The Chickasaw Freedmen, A People Without a Country by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.

  • My Life and an Era, The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin Edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin

  • And Still the Waters Run, The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes by Angie Debo

  • The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Valiant, McCurtain County Oklahoma By Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • The Five Civilized Tribes by Grant Foreman

  • The Chickasaws by Arrell M. Gibson

  • Who was Who Among the Southern Indians, a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907 by Don Martini

  • The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914 by Kent Carter

  • Freedmen of the Frontier Volume 1, Selected Cherokee, Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen Families by Angela Y. Walton-Raji

  • Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now by Jesse Burt and Robert B. Ferguson

  • Africans and Seminoles, From Removal to Emancipation by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.

  • The Seminole Freedmen a History, by Kevin Mulroy

  • The Removal of the Choctaw Indians by Arthur J. DeRosier, Jr.

  • The Choctaws In Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation by Clara Sue Kidwell

  • Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspective Sixth Edition by Martin N. Marger

  • Indian or Freedman?: Enrollment, Race, and Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1896-1907

    Shreier, Jesse T., Indian or Freedman?: Enrollment, Race, and Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1896-1907, Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (WINTER 2011), PP. 458-479

  • “What’s Past Is Prologue”: Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive (pp. 218-235)

    • Harvey, Sandra. "CHAPTER TEN. “ What’s Past Is Prologue”: Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive". Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro and Andrea Smith, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2020, pp. 218-235.