In a message dated 7/23/2002 5:27:08 PM Central Daylight Time, imafo2002@yahoo.com writes: > > It appears that they continued to be called by > both names throughout their lives. As a matter of > fact, there was some Dawes testimony that among Indian > friends their names were completely Choctaw. In other > words, they didn't use the John or the Mary Ann. > > Imafo > Hello Imafo, if I remember correctly from one of George Ann's emails, Choctaw's actually came to have three names in many instances, their English (or French or Spanish) name, the Choctaw name which others called them and the Choctaw name which they gave themselves but which only they knew. Also I was wondering, since all of the Treaties dealing with the Choctaws covered land in Mississippi, wouldn't any land that your ancestors had in Louisiana be still in your family's possession or maybe I should say your ancestors would still have retained that land even if they relocated to Oklahoma since I don't think any of the treaties covered land in Louisiana? John Craven New Orleans