Before Oklahoma was admitted to the union as a state in 1907, the Choctaw Nation was divided into three districts: Apukshunnubbee, Moshulatubbee, and Pushmataha. Each district had its own chief from 1834 to 1857; afterward, the three districts were put under the jurisdiction of one chief.
List of Chiefs

Thomas LeFlore
1834-1838 - Apukshunnubbee District

Moshulatubbee
1834-1836 - Moshulatubbee District

Nitakechi
1834-1838 Pushmataha District

Joseph Kincaid
1836-1838 - Moshulatubbee District

James Fletcher
1838-1842 - Apukshunnubbee District

John McKinney
1838-1842 - Moshulatubbee District

Pierre Juzan
1838-1841 - Pushmataha District

Isaac Folsom
1841-1846 - Pushmataha District

Thomas LeFlore
1842-1850 - Apukshunnubbee District

Nathaniel Folsom
1842-1846 - Moshulatubbee District

Peter Folsom
1846-1850 - Moshulatubbee District

Silas Fisher
1846-1850 - Pushmataha District

George W. Harkins
1850-1857 - Apukshunnubbee District

Cornelius McCurtain
1850-1854 - Moshulatubbee District

George Folsom
1850-1854 - Pushmataha District

David McCoy
1854-1857 - Moshulatubbee District

Nicholas Cochnauer
1854-1857 - Pushmataha District

Alfred Wade
1857-1858

Tandy Walker
1858-1859

Basil LeFlore
1859-1860

George Hudson
1860-1862

Samuel Garland
1862-1864

Peter Pitchlynn
1864-1866

Allen Wright
1866-1870

William Bryant
1870-1874

Coleman Cole
1874-1878

Isaac Levi Garvin
1878-1880

Jackson F. McCurtain
1880-1884

Edmund McCurtain
1884-1886

Thompson McKinney
1886-1888

Ben Smallwood
1888-1890

Wilson N. Jones
1890-1894

Jefferson Gardner
1894-1896

Green McCurtain
1896-1900

Gilbert Wesley Dukes
1900-1902

Green McCurtain
1902-1910

Victor Locke Jr.
1910-1918

William F. Semple
1918-1922

William H. Harrison
1922-1929

Ben Dwight
1929-1937

William Durant
1937-1948

Harry J. W. Belvin
1948-1975

Clark David Gardner
1975-1978

Hollis E. Roberts
1978-1997

Gregory E. Pyle
1997-2014
