Lines on Paper: The Choctaws And The Great Father

Material type

Article (Photograph / Image)

Description

1824 Choctwa chief Pushmataha was buried at Congressional Cemetery. The Choctaw tribe live in what is now Mississippi and Alabama have given most of their hunting ground to the white man but refuse to give up their ancestral homeland. Six decades later the Choctaw Chief Peter Perkins Pitchlynn was buried also buried at Congressional Cemetery. Both deaths marked the enlightened Indian Policy with uncoerced emigration established by President Monroe.

Subjects and names

Congressional Cemetery, Choctaw, President Monroe, Emigration, Cemetery, Washington Masonic Temple, Mississippi, Alabama, Land, Peter Perkins Pitchlyn, Pushmantaha, Mckenney, Indian Territory.

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