Nalora, Thanks for posting this information. This helps me narrow down a marraige date for one of my (actually my husbands)Walkers who was Choctaw that married a Chickasaw. From The Journal of Chickasaw History Vol 5 Number 3 1999 In the 1870's - To discourage the marriage of non-citizens to Chickasaws, the legislature passed a law requiring non-citizens to remain in the Chickasaw Nation for two years before they could get a license to marry a citizen of the nation. The law also said that non-citizens pay $50 for a license. This provision was meant to discourage the lower class of whites from intermarrying with Chickasaw women. Non-Citizens also needed the recommendation of five good responsible citizens to the applicant's good moral character and industrious habits. Section 3 provided that if the union of a citizen and non-citizen was broken, and the non-citizen contracted another marriage to a non-citizen, that individual would lose all tribal rights and privileges. Was there a similar law in Choctaw Tribe? Shari >From: Nalora <vashti@theshop.net> >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW] intermarriage >Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:49:23 -0600 > >From "Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory", >Vol. I, Choctaws and Chickasaws >By H. F. O'Beirne >published 1891. : > >page 17 "The Choctaws" > >During the presidency of Jackson we find the Choctaws occupying a >considerable tract of country in Mississippi and living under the >government of a king who usually inherited the royal office. > Prior to the revolutionary war several kings were appointed the British, >and still further back the french were instrumental in choosing the crowned >head. > Next in order came the chiefs, each "iksa" or clan, having one principal >and subordinate chiefs. The captains and warriors were ranked next, being >dominant over the tillers of the soil, etc., etc. The principal "iksas" or >clans were the Hyah-pah-tuk-kalo (twin lakes), Okalla-fal-lah-ya (long >people), Okalla-hun-nah-lay (six towns) Chickasaw-hay (Chickasaws), >Koon-chas, and the Imok-lu-sha. > These clans lived apart from each other and never married outside their >own "iksa," it being a very serious breach of the law and punishable until >1836, when the act was happily repealed." > > >Nalora > > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >Please support wonderful & FREE genealogy on the internet. Join >Rootsweb.com today! > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com