Historic Choctaw archaeology: Social inequality in post-removal southeastern Oklahoma.

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dc.contributor.advisorVehik, Susan C.,en_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, Aubra L.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:19:10Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:19:10Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Native American group we know as the Choctaw has previously been interpreted as a fairly recent social construct and the result of interaction that began after sustained contact with European colonists. This research suggests that earlier interpretations of Choctaw sociopolitical development reflect Euroamerican perspectives at the expense of a Native American viewpoint. Ethnohistorical data were used to reevaluate eighteenth century Choctaw mortuary customs, settlement pattern, male social ranking, and leadership categories. These data support the position that the historic Choctaw were organized as a complex chiefdom rather than several simple chiefdoms organized as a confederacy and that unequal relations were present among the Choctaw. Furthermore, ethnohistorical data also clearly demonstrated that most traditional Choctaw leadership categories did not collapse during the late eighteenth century, but continued after the Choctaw were removed to Oklahoma. Information derived from the historic Mississippi Choctaw was compared to material cultural assemblages from four post-removal Oklahoma Choctaw sites in an attempt to document unequal relations. The material culture assemblages from the four Oklahoma Choctaw sites were quantified and the various depositional contexts described and categorized to allow intra- and intersite comparisons. These comparisons did not discover much material culture evidence of unequal relations among the post-removal Oklahoma Choctaw.en_US
dc.format.extentix, 315 leaves :en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/664
dc.noteAdviser: Susan C. Vehik.en_US
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3734.en_US
dc.subjectAnthropology, Archaeology.en_US
dc.subjectBryan County (Okla.) Antiquities.en_US
dc.subjectChoctaw Indians Oklahoma Social conditions 19th century.en_US
dc.subjectMcCurtain County (Okla.) Antiquities.en_US
dc.subjectEquality Oklahoma History 19th century.en_US
dc.subjectChoctaw Indians Oklahoma Antiquities.en_US
dc.subjectIncome distribution Oklahoma History 19th century.en_US
dc.subjectChoctaw Indians Oklahoma Economic conditions 19th century.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Anthropologyen_US
dc.titleHistoric Choctaw archaeology: Social inequality in post-removal southeastern Oklahoma.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Anthropology
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI3109059en_US

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