History of The Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians By H. B. Cushman 1899 607 pages - Bonus Book - Life Among the Choctaw Indians and Sketches of the Southwest Henry C. Benson, 1860 314 pages, searchable - Bonus Book #2 - Oklahoma Indian Territory Marriages Book A, Choctaw Nation 1890-1891 344 pages, searchable - Bonus Book #3 - A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language Cyrus Byington, 1915 636 pages, searchable **************************************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View (or MAC Preview Ver. 3) **************************************************************************** $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Choctaw-Indian-History-also-Chickasaw-and-Natchez-/130426299483?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5e03645b The Choctaw were descendants of the Mississippian culture and Hopewellian people, who lived throughout the east of the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries. The early Spanish explorers of the 16th century encountered their ancestors. In the 19th century, the Choctaw were known as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" because they adopted and integrated numerous cultural and technological practices of their European American colonial neighbors. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are the two primary Choctaw associations today, although smaller Choctaw groups are located in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. During the American Revolution, most Choctaw supported the Thirteen Colonies' bid for independence from the British Crown. The Choctaw and the United States agreed to nine treaties. The last three treaties (Treaty of Doak's Stand, Washington City, and Dancing Rabbit) were designed to deracinate most Choctaw west of the Mississippi River. U.S. President Andrew Jackson made the Choctaw exile a model of Indian removal. They were the first Native Americans to walk the Trail of Tears. The Choctaw were exiled (to the area now called Oklahoma) because the U.S. desired to expand territory available for settlement to European Americans[5], wanted to save them from extinction, and wanted to acquire their natural resources.