The five largest southeastern Indian groupsthe Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoleswere forced to emigrate west to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Here, from WPA interviews are those Indians own stories of the troubled years between the Civil War and Oklahoma statehooda period of extraordinary turmoil.During this period, Oklahoma Indians functioned autonomously, holding their own elections, enforcing their own laws, and creating their own society from a mixture of old Indian customs and the new ways of the whites. The WPA informants describe the economic realities of the era a few wealthy Indians, the rest scraping a living out of subsistence farming, hunting, and fishing. They talk about education and religionNative American and Christianas well as diversions of the time horse races, fairs, ball games, cornstalk shooting, and traditional ceremonies such as the Green Corn Dance.

Binding: Paperback;242 pages; Publisher: Longleaf Services on behalf of University of Oklah; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 449 g; Dimensions: 216 x 133 x 15

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