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  • Find Genealogy on the Dawes Commission Rolls
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    Find Genealogy on the Dawes Commission Rolls

    Part three in our genealogy series, are you wondering whether your Native American ancestors may have registered on the Dawes Commission Rolls and if you and your family could possibly become tribal members of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma? We will show you step-by-step.

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  • Research your Extended Family In Depth
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    Research your Extended Family In Depth

    Part two in our genealogy series can help you learn how to use online records and documents for your family tree. It will explore records such as marriage licenses, federal census records, and military cards to see why those records matter in your family research.

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  • Create your own Family Tree
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    Create your own Family Tree

    Part one in our genealogy series, creating your family tree is not as difficult as you might think. It's as easy as starting with your own name and date of birth.

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  • Chahta Tosholi: Ishtaboli between the Two Great Removals
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    Ishtaboli between the Two Great Removals

    Jason Lewis, a Choctaw Nation citizen who works for the Mississippi Choctaws' Cultural Department gives a tour of games reported across the southern United States and the Choctaw Nation in the era between the two great removals of our Choctaw ancestors.

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  • Chahta Tosholi: Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship Recipients
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    Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship Recipients

    2021-2022 Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship recipients Austin West and Claire Green Young share about their experiences attending University College Cork. Chahta Foundation and college staff also provide more information about the program and application process.

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  • Cemetery Restoration Program
    Historic Preservation, Videos

    Cemetery Restoration Program

    The program works to locate, preserve, and protect Choctaw burial sites inside and out of the Reservation of the Choctaw Nation.

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  • Chahta Tosholi: Troubled Voices - Choctaws in Mass Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing
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    Troubled Voices – Choctaws in Mass Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing

    By re-examining of the removal of the Choctaws from Mississippi, Dr. Arlen Hanson, a lecturer from North Carolina at Pembroke, seeks to illuminate the voices and experiences of the Choctaws themselves, rather than focusing on a strictly political history as has often been the case in the literature on Removal.

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