Federally recognized tribe of Choctaw Indians in the state of Mississippi
Government Organization
The
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
(
Choctaw
:
Mississippi Chahta
) is one of three
federally recognized tribes
of
Choctaw people
, and the only one in the
state of Mississippi
. On April 20, 1945, this tribe was organized under the
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
. Their
reservation
included lands in
Neshoba
,
Leake
,
Newton
,
Scott
,
Jones
,
Attala
,
Kemper
, and
Winston
counties. The Mississippi Choctaw regained stewardship of their mother mound,
Nanih Waiya
mounds and
cave
in 2008. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw have declared August 18 as a tribal holiday to celebrate their regaining control of the
sacred site
. The other two Choctaw groups are the
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
, the third largest tribe in the United States, and the
Jena Band of Choctaw Indians
, located in
Louisiana
.
History
[
edit
]
Indian Removal
[
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]
A Choctaw family in traditional clothing, 1908
The historic Choctaw had emerged as a tribe and occupied substantial territory in what is now the State of Mississippi.
[1]
In the early
19th century,
they faced increasing pressure from European Americans who sought to acquire their land for agricultural development. President
Andrew Jackson
gained congressional passage of the
Indian Removal Act
in 1830 to achieve this goal and eliminate
Native American
land claims
in the Southeast.
[2]
The chiefs signed the
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
with the United States, which the
U.S. Senate
ratified on February 25, 1831. President Jackson was determined to use the Choctaw
removal
as a model for removing other tribes from the Southeast to territory far west of the
Mississippi River
. After ceding close to 11 million acres (45,000 km
2
), the Choctaw were to emigrate in three stages: the first in the fall of 1831, the second in 1832, and the last in 1833.
[3]
Although the removals continued into the early
20th century
, some Choctaw remained in Mississippi and continued to live in their ancient
homeland
. According to the terms of removal, the nearly 5000 Choctaw who remained in Mississippi became citizens of both the state and the United States.
[4]
For the next ten years, they were subject to increasing legal conflict,
harassment
, and
intimidation
by white settlers.
Racism
against them was rampant. A Choctaw described their situation in 1849 as follows: "We have had our habitations torn down and burned, our fences destroyed, cattle turned into our fields and we ourselves have been
scourged
,
manacled
,
fettered
and otherwise personally abused, until by such treatment some of our best men have died."
[4]
American Civil War and Reconstruction
[
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]
The Mississippi Choctaw participated in the
American Civil War
.
[5]
After the Confederate Conscription Act was passed, most Choctaw men were enrolled and formed the 1st Choctaw Battalion. While the enlisted were Choctaw Indians, all commissioned officers were white men. The
battalion
was headquartered at
Newton Station, Mississippi
, and consisted of two companies of 101 soldiers. However, the battalion had members who deserted, and it was disbanded a few months after formation. While the 1st Choctaw Battalion was standing down, Spann's Independent Scouts was forming. Many Mississippi Choctaw men enrolled in this battalion and continued participation in the war until the surrender.
[
citation needed
]
Conditions declined for the Choctaw after the
Civil War
and during
Reconstruction
. As conservative white Democrats worked to restore
white supremacy
and eliminate black
suffrage
, they passed a new constitution in 1890 that effectively
disenfranchised
blacks by creating barriers to
voter registration
.
[6]
In addition, under
racial segregation
and
Jim Crow
laws, the whites included all
people of color
in the category of "other" or
Negro
(black), and required them to use segregated facilities.
Delegation to Washington, D.C.
[
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]
From left to right, Chief Wesley Johnson, Thomas B. Sullivan, Culberson Davis, James E. Arnold, and Emil John.
By 1907, the Mississippi Choctaw were in decline. The
Dawes Commission
had sent a large number of the Mississippi Choctaws to
Indian Territory
, and only 1,253 members remained.
[7]
Meetings were held in 1913 to try to find a solution.
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
Wesley Johnson was elected chief of the newly formed Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana Choctaw Council at a 1913 meeting.
[12]
[13]
[11]
After deliberation, the council selected delegates to send to
Washington, D.C
., to bring attention to the Choctaw's plight. Historian Robert Bruce Ferguson wrote in his 2015 article that:
In late January 1914, Chief Wesley Johnson and his delegates (Culbertson Davis and Emil John) traveled to Washington, D.C. ... While they were in Washington, Johnson, Davis, and John met with numerous senators & representatives and persuaded the federals to bring the Choctaw case before Congress. On February 5th, their mission culminated with the meeting of President Woodrow Wilson. Culbertson Davis presented a beaded Choctaw belt as a token of goodwill to the President.
[12]
[14]
[15]
Nearly two years after the trip to Washington, the Indian Appropriations Act of 1916 was passed. A stipulation allocated $1,000 to investigate the Mississippi Choctaws' condition. John R.T. Reeves was tasked with investigating the condition of Indians living in Mississippi and reporting his findings to Congress.
[12]
[16]
Reeves submitted his report on November 6, 1916.
[16]
Hearing at Union, Mississippi
[
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]
In March 1917, federal representatives held hearings attended by approximately 100 Choctaws to examine the needs of the Mississippi Choctaw.
[17]
[18]
Some
congressmen
who presided over the hearings were
Charles D. Carter
of Oklahoma,
William W. Hastings
of Oklahoma,
Carl T. Hayden
of Arizona,
John N. Tillman
of Arkansas, and
William W. Venable
of Mississippi.
[18]
These hearings resulted in improved access to health care, housing, and schools.
[12]
[19]
The Mississippi Choctaw's improvements may have continued if they weren't dramatically interrupted by world events.
World War I
slowed down progress for the Indians as Washington's
bureaucracy
focused on the war. Some Mississippi Choctaw served during the war.
[
citation needed
]
The
Spanish Influenza
also slowed progress, as this pandemic killed many Choctaws.
[20]
1930s and reorganization
[
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]
During the
Great Depression
and the
Roosevelt administration
, officials implemented numerous initiatives to alleviate some of the social and economic conditions in the South. The 1933
Special Narrative Report
described the dismal welfare conditions of the Mississippi Choctaw, whose population had declined to 1,665 people by 1930.
[21]
John Collier
, the US Commissioner for Indian Affairs (now BIA), used the report as instrumental support in a proposal to re-organize the Mississippi Choctaw as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI). This action would enable them to establish their own tribal government and develop a beneficial relationship with the federal government.
[
citation needed
]
In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the
Indian Reorganization Act
. This law proved critical for survival of the Mississippi Choctaw, Alabama Choctaw and other tribal peoples, who also reorganized in that era. Baxter York, Emmett York, and Joe Chitto worked on gaining recognition for the Choctaw. They realized that they needed to adopt a constitution. A rival organization, the
Mississippi Choctaw Indian Federation
, opposed federal tribal recognition because of fears of dominance by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA). The Federation disbanded in 1935 some of its "trouble makers" were moved to another jurisdiction. The first Tribal Council members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw were Baxter and Emmett York, with Joe Chitto serving as the first chairperson.
[22]
[23]
World War II and 1940s
[
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]
With the tribe's adoption of an elected, representative government, in 1944 the Secretary of the Interior declared that 18,000 acres (73 km
2
) would be held in trust for the Choctaw of Mississippi, as was done for other federally recognized tribes on reservations.
[22]
Lands in
Neshoba
and surrounding counties were set aside as a federal
Indian reservation
. Eight communities were included in the reservation land:
Bogue Chitto
, Bogue Homa,
Conehatta
, Crystal Ridge,
Pearl River
,
Red Water
,
Tucker
, and
Standing Pine
.
[
citation needed
]
Under the Indian Reorganization Act, the Mississippi Choctaw reorganized on April 20, 1945, as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians when it was federally recognized by the U.S. government, and its constitution ratified.
[23]
[24]
This gave them sovereignty and independence from the state government. Mississippi continued to be dominated by conservative whites of the
Democratic Party
, who maintained legal racial segregation and disenfranchisement well into the late
20th century
.
[
citation needed
]
Post-Reorganization, Korean War, and 1950s
[
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]
In the 1950s, successive
Republican
administrations, supported by
conservative
Democrats in
the South
(a one-party region), became impatient with the gradual assimilation of Native Americans. Republicans proposed to terminate the special status of those tribes that they thought were more fully assimilated. In 1959, the Choctaw Termination Act was passed. Congress settled on a policy to
terminate
tribes as quickly as possible, believing that was a route of assimilation. During the same period, the federal government, concerned about the isolation of many Native Americans living on reservations in rural areas with scarce job opportunities, created relocation programs to cities. They aimed to increase job and cultural opportunities for
American Indians
. Indian policy experts hoped to expedite the assimilation of Native Americans into the larger American society, which was becoming increasingly urbanized.
[
citation needed
]
The Choctaw people continued to struggle economically due to
bigotry
, cultural isolation, and lack of jobs in their rural area. However, with the reorganization and establishment of a tribal government over the next decades, they took control of their "schools,
health care facilities
, legal and judicial systems, and social service programs."
[25]
Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, and 1960s
[
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]
Group of Mississippi Choctaw males in the late 50s or early 60s. Photograph by Bob Ferguson.
In the
Civil Rights era
, roughly between 1965 and 1982, Native Americans renewed their commitments to the value of their ancient heritage. They worked to celebrate their strengths and to exercise appropriate rights, dramatically reversing the trend of abandoning Indian culture and tradition.
[26]
During the 1960s, Community Action programs connected with Native Americans were based on citizen participation. Democratic President
John F. Kennedy
decided against implementing additional termination of tribal status. He did enact some of the last terminations in process, such as that of the
Ponca
. Both Presidents
Lyndon Johnson
and Republican
Richard Nixon
repudiated the termination of the federal government's special relationships with Native American tribes. In March 1968, President Johnson delivered a special message to Congress on the problems of the American Indian, titled "The Forgotten American," where he stated:
We must affirm the right of the first Americans to remain Indians while exercising their rights as Americans. We must affirm their rights to freedom of choice and self-determination.
[27]
The Choctaw witnessed the social forces that brought
Freedom Summer
to their ancient homeland. The Civil Rights Era produced significant social change for the Choctaw in Mississippi, as their civil rights improved alongside the changing conditions for African Americans. Before the
Civil Rights Act of 1964
, most jobs were given to whites, with blacks being considered second in line.
[28]
The Choctaw, who for 150 years had identified neither as white nor black, but were discriminated against as people of color, were "left where they had always been"?in poverty.
[28]
Donna Ladd
wrote that a Choctaw, now in her 40s, remembers "as a little girl, she thought that a 'white only' sign in a local store meant she could only order white, or vanilla, ice cream. It was a small story, but one that shows how a third race can easily get left out of the attempts for understanding."
[29]
The end of legalized
racial segregation
permitted the Choctaw to participate in public institutions and facilities that had been reserved exclusively for white patrons.
[
citation needed
]
In another major change for state governments and the federal government, politicians began to support institutionalized gambling to support state programs. Starting with New Hampshire in 1963, numerous state legislatures passed new laws to establish state-run lotteries and other gambling enterprises to raise money for government services.
[
citation needed
]
Native American tribes began to study gambling enterprises as a means to increase revenues on their reservations to support the economic welfare of their tribes.
[
citation needed
]
1970s and economic development
[
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]
In the 1970s, the Choctaw repudiated the extremes of Indian activism. Shortly after, Congress passed the landmark
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975
, marking the end of 15 years of federal policy reform for American Indian tribes. The legislation authorized tribes to negotiate contracts with the BIA to manage more of their own educational and social service programs, provided direct grants to help tribes develop plans for assuming responsibility, and provided for Indian parents' involvement on school boards.
[30]
On May 19, 1977, the American Indian Policy Review Commission, under the
Department of Interior
(DOI), the BIA, and the Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA), officially published federal acknowledgement of the Choctaw Nation of Indians in the original homeland of Mobile and Washington counties of Alabama. These area in these counties represent the original Mississippi Territory and the same locale as the various Treaties with the Choctaw Nation of Indians on the Tombigbee in 1820 and named again in Alabama in the Choctaw Treaty of 1866. These Alabama Choctaw had been accounted for in the Mississippi Choctaw Jurisdictional Act of 1936, but have been left out of the annals of history under the
Color of Law
since at least 1937.
[
citation needed
]
In 1979, the
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians
was recognized by the state of Alabama; it does not have formal federal recognition.
Leadership
[
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]
Phillip Martin and family in the late 1950s or early 1960s
Phillip Martin
, who had served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, returned to
Neshoba County, Mississippi
, to visit his former home. After seeing the poverty of his people, he decided to stay to help.
[28]
Will D. Campbell
, a Baptist minister and civil rights activist, also witnessed the destitution of the Choctaw in the postwar years. He would later write,
the thing I remember the most ... was the depressing sight of the Choctaws, their shanties along the country roads, grown men lounging on the dirt streets of their villages in demeaning idleness, sometimes drinking from a common bottle, sharing a roll-your-own cigarette, their half-clad children a picture of hurting that would never end.
[28]
Martin served as chairperson in various Choctaw committees up until 1977. That year, he was elected as Chief, or
Miko
, of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. He served for 32 years, being re-elected until 2007.
[31]
[32]
[33]
Beginning in 1979, the tribal council worked on a variety of economic development initiatives, first geared toward attracting industry to the reservation. They had people available to work,
natural resources
, and no
taxes
. The kind of industries included automotive parts,
greeting cards
,
direct mail
and printing, and plastic molding.
[
citation needed
]
1980s?1990s
[
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]
In 1987, the
Supreme Court of the United States
ruled that
federally recognized tribes
could operate gaming facilities on their sovereign reservation land free from state regulation. In 1988, the U.S. Congress enacted the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
(IGRA). IGRA set the terms for Native American tribes to operate
casinos
and negotiate terms with states, such as paying a portion of revenues instead of taxes.
[30]
The administration of Governor
Ray Mabus
delayed action on Indian gaming in Mississippi. However, in 1992, Governor
Kirk Fordice
gave permission for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to develop Class III gaming. As a result, MBCI now operates one of the largest casino resorts in the nation; it is located in
Choctaw, Mississippi
. The Silver Star Casino opened in 1994, followed by the Golden Moon Casino in 2002. Together, these casinos are known as the
Pearl River Resort
.
[34]
21st century
[
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]
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has become one of the state's largest employers. During the early 21st century, they ran 19 businesses and employed 7,800 people.
[35]
Purporting to represent Native Americans before Congress and state governments to aid them in setting up gaming on their reservation, lobbyists
Jack Abramoff
and
Michael Scanlon
used fraudulent means to gain profits of $15 million in payment from MBCI. Abramoff expressed contempt for many of his clients. In an
E-mail
sent January 29, 2002, Abramoff told Scanlon, "I have to meet with the monkeys from the Choctaw tribal council."
[36]
Congressional hearings on the Abramoff scandal were held by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in 2006. Federal charges were brought against Abramoff and Scanlon.
[37]
In 2002, the United States Congress formally recognized the entire Choctaw Nation in 25 U.S.C. 1779, including those Choctaw in Mobile and Washington counties, Alabama. They were described as Full-Blooded Choctaw equally and in the same Mississippi Choctaw Jurisdictional Act of 1934, by which the Mississippi Band of Choctaw reorganized.
[
citation needed
]
Return of Nanih Waiya
[
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]
After nearly two hundred years, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw regained stewardship of
Nanih Waiya
from the state of Mississippi. Nanih Waiya is a
platform mound
with an adjacent conical mound and remnants of an
earthwork embankment
. The earliest dates for construction of the earthworks are from 100 to 400 CE.
[38]
Choctaw people venerated this site and nearby Nanih Waiya Cave as their place of origin and the home of their
ancestors
. For years, the state protected the site as a Mississippi
state park
. It returned
Nanih Waiya
to the Choctaw in 2006 under Mississippi Legislature State Bill 2803.
[39]
The deed was signed on August 18, 2008. The Choctaw have celebrated the day since as a tribal holiday, and made it an occasion to tell stories of their origin and history, serve traditional foods, and conduct related dances.
[40]
Government
[
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]
The current Miko or tribal chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is Cyrus Ben, having been re-elected to a second term in 2023.
[41]
Ben was first elected in 2019, defeating incumbent tribal chief
Phyliss J. Anderson
. Ben is the youngest tribal chief elected.
[42]
In July 2007, Beasley Denson was elected to replace the previous Chief Philip Martin.
[43]
Under Denson, the title of Chief was changed to
Miko
, the Choctaw name for the tribe's leader. Denson served until 2011, when Phyliss J. Anderson won the election as the Choctaw’s first female chief. Anderson chose not to use M
iko
as a title, instead using the traditional title of Chief.
[44]
Martin had been democratically elected for seven consecutive terms. Martin had reduced the tribe's 70% unemployment rate in 1997 to less than 3% unemployment in 2007. During his tenure, he led the tribe to become the third-largest employer in Mississippi.
[
citation needed
]
Locations
[
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]
Map of Old Choctaw country in Mississippi before removal.
[
citation needed
]
Location of Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation
Old Choctaw country included dozens of towns, such as Lukfata, Koweh Chito, Oka Hullo, Pante, Osapa Chito, Oka Cooply, and Yanni Achukma, located in and around Neshoba and Kemper counties.
[
citation needed
]
The Choctaw regularly traveled hundreds of miles from their homes for long periods of time, moving to seasonal hunting grounds in the winter. They set out early in the fall and returned to their reserved lands at the opening of spring to plant their gardens. At that time they visited the Europeans at Columbus, Mississippi; Macon, Brooksville, and Crawford, and the region where Yazoo City now is located.
[
citation needed
]
Presently, the Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation has eight communities:
[45]
These communities are located in parts of nine counties in Mississippi. The largest concentration of land is in
Neshoba County
, at
32°48′56″N
89°14′46″W
/
32.81556°N 89.24611°W
/
32.81556; -89.24611
, which comprises more than two-thirds of the reservation's land area and holds more than 62 percent of its population, as of the
2000 census
. The total land area is 84.282 km
2
(32.541 sq mi), and its official total resident population was 5,190 persons. The nine counties are Neshoba,
Newton
,
Leake
,
Kemper
,
Jones
,
Winston
,
Attala
,
Jackson
, and
Scott
counties.
[
citation needed
]
Notable people
[
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]
See also
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]
References
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