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Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

by Fay A. Yarbrough
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When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and deemed any criticism of it or its army treasonous and punishable by death. Choctaws also raised an infantry force and a cavalry to fight alongside Confederate forces.
In Choctaw Confederates, Fay A. Yarbrough reveals that, while sovereignty and states' rights mattered to Choctaw leaders, the survival of slavery also determined the Nation's support of the Confederacy. Mining service records for approximately 3,000 members of the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, Yarbrough examines the experiences of Choctaw soldiers and notes that although their enthusiasm waned as the war persisted, military service allowed them to embrace traditional masculine roles that were disappearing in a changing political and economic landscape. By drawing parallels between the Choctaw Nation and the Confederate states, Yarbrough looks beyond the traditional binary of the Union and Confederacy and reconsiders the historical relationship between Native populations and slavery.

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    October 22, 2021

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      August 27, 2021

      Moving beyond dichotomies of North and South or free and enslaved, Yarbrough (history, Rice Univ.; Race and the Cherokee Nation) focuses on the Choctaw people's experiences during the American Civil War. Expelled from their traditional homelands in the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi, along the Trail of Tears, the Choctaw settled in Indian Territory bordering Texas and Arkansas. Yarbrough writes that like their white neighbors to the south, the Choctaw used the labor of Black enslaved people, primarily for growing corn and grain and herding animals; cotton formed a small portion of Choctaw agricultural output. When the Civil War began, the Choctaw nation quickly sided with the Confederacy. Choctaw men thronged to specially formed units in the Confederate Army, displaying, Yarbrough claims, a degree of enthusiasm often lacking in white Southern recruits; she makes the case that participation in the Civil War was a means for Choctaw men to reclaim older conceptions of manliness rooted in warfare. After the war's end, Reconstruction forced Choctaws to reconsider tribal membership and citizenship, Yarbrough maintains. In this cogent work, drawing on narratives of enslaved people, the records of Choctaw recruits to the Confederate Army, and government and archival sources, Yarbrough gives a more complete look at Choctaw experiences of and perspectives on the Civil War and its effects on their society and culture. VERDICT Readers interested in history of Indigenous peoples and the U.S. Civil War will enjoy this look at the Confederacy through the lens of Choctaw people.--Chad E. Statler, Westlake Porter P.L., Westlake, OH

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