Good morning all, Although these laws were not directed at the Choctaws of Louisiana they would have affected them & all others classified as Native American in Louisiana & anyone doing genealogy in Louisiana might find these laws interesting in finding clues to missing ancestors. These are from White by Definition - Social Classification in Creole Louisiana by Virginia Dominguez, Rutgers University Press, 1986 ed. "The Louisiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Adele v. Beauregard in 1810 explicitly stated that American Indians were persons of color, and this classification was accepted as valid throughout the nineteenth century. This meant that until 1870 when antimiscegenation statutes were repealed by Reconstruction governments, marriages between Indians and whites were prohibited. When interracial marriages were again outlawed in 1894, Indians---still classified as people of color---were again prohibited from marrying whites. This depended exclusively on their identification as persons of color. The first legal sign of a change in the classification of Indians came in the form of a 1920 statute (act220; Louisiana Revised Statute 9:201) that treated the union of an Indian and a person of the colored and black race as miscegenetic and thereby nullified it completely. Indians were thereby described as noncolored for the first time in Louisiana's legal history. By the 1930's the attorney general explicitly stated that marriages between white persons and Indians was not prohibited in Louisiana." Notice prior to the acquisition of Louisiana in 1803 there didn't seem to be any need for laws relating to whether or not Native Americans were persons of color & who they couldn't marry. One supposes that meant it wasn't a problem for the French or Spanish who came before the Americans. Well back to work, Ya'll stay dry down here along the coast. Its pitch dark here & raining good. They don't let us stay home for a little old thing like a tropical storm. Take care, Marcie