Choctaw facts for kids
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 160,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 United States(Oklahoma, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama) |
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| Languages | |
| English, Choctaw | |
| Religion | |
| Protestantism, traditional beliefs | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chickasaw, Five Civilized Tribes other Native American groups |
The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States.
Images for kids
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The Willoughby Disk, a Mississippian ceremonial stone palette from Moundville Archaeological Park, housed onsite in the Jones Archaeological Museum. Photo by Jeffrey Reed.
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Choctaw Village near the Chefuncte, by Francois Bernard, 1869. (Peabody Museum – Harvard University.) The women are preparing dye to color cane strips for making baskets.
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The complete Choctaw Nation shaded in blue in relation to the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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Pushmataha, (c. 1764-1824)
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Kutteeotubbee was a noted warrior. 1834, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Choctaw chief Greenwood LeFlore's plantation home, Malmaison, was built in 1852 near Greenwood, Mississippi, and was described as a "palace in the wilderness."
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Jackson McCurtain, Lieutenant Colonel of the First Choctaw Battalion, CSA, late principal chief
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Choctaw girls in 1868. Smithsonian Institution.
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Peter Pitchlynn was the Choctaw Principal Chief from 1864–1866, and a Choctaw Delegate to Washington, DC for nearly two decades following. He is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Painting, 1834, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Faunceway Baptiste, a Choctaw man of mixed-race ancestry. 1868, Smithsonian Institution.
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Choctaw Nation senate in 1898. Oklahoma Historical Society.
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From left to right, Chief Wesley Johnson, T. B. Sullivan, Culberson Davis, James E. Arnold, and Emil John.
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Louisiana Choctaws in front of their cabin in 1909
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Choctaws in training in World War I for coded radio & telephone transmissions
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Wounded Choctaw soldier in World War I, U.S. National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Auteuil, France
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Group of Mississippi Choctaw males in the late 50s or early 60s. Photograph by Bob Ferguson.
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Phillip Martin and family in the late 1950s or early 1960s
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Norma Howard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), award-winning watercolor painter, with Choctaw stickball sticks made by her son.
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Image from video of Senate Indian Affairs Committee Hearing on 'Lobbying Practices Involving Indian Tribes' on September 29, 2004
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Tullockchishko (Drinks the Juice of the Stones) was the greatest of Choctaw stickball players, 1834.
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A Mississippian era engraved shell discovered at Eddyville, Kentucky
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Mississippi Choctaw group wearing traditional garb, c. 1908.
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See also
In Spanish: Choctaw para niños
