Mississippi Choctaws and racial politics.(ESSAY)(Essay)

Southern Cultures | December 22, 2008| | Copyright

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In December 1912, Mississippi representative Pat Harrison stood before Congress and delivered an impassioned speech on behalf of the Choctaw Indians living in his district along the Gulf Coast. In a heavily edited version of the past, Harrison announced, "Mr. Chairman, the Choctaw Indians always stood with the white men of the South," and called on Congress to support legislation allowing Mississippi Choctaws access to the resources of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. (1) Descendants of those who had remained in Mississippi when the Choctaw ...

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