Yowani Choctaws

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The Yowani (probably from the word for caterpillar) ('Jawanie/Yguanes/Yugani/Iguanes-Spanish') are a band of the Choctaw tribe ".[1] The Yowani were named for their village along the Chickasawhay River in Mississippi. European Americans set up a trading post nearby, which developed in the later 19th century as the town of Shubuta.[2] The Yowani continued to expand their holdings, eventually venturing into Louisiana, where they established close ties with the Koasati and Caddo. They later adopted many of the Caddo customs.[3] When Louisiana became part of the United States under the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, many of the Indian tribes in the territory wanted to emigrate to less hostile environs. Spain agreed to allow the Yowani and the Alabama-Coushatta to move to Spanish Texas. In 1824, a second group of Yowani received permission from Mexico to establish villages in Texas.[4] The Yowani gradually abandoned their original Mississippi homelands, and by 1850 most Yowani lived in Rusk and Smith counties in east Texas, the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory, or in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.[5]

During the Texas Revolution in 1836, the Yowani were a party to a peace treaty with the provisional government of Texas.[6] Following Texas's independence and the creation of the Republic of Texas, relations between Indian tribes and English-speaking settlers deteriorated. Under President Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Texas Army drove most of the Cherokee Indians out of Texas.[7] After a confrontation between a group of Indians and a few of the residents of Nacogdoches, which resulted in the deaths of at least three white men, a vigilante group set out after the offending Indians. Unable to catch the perpetrators, the mob sought revenge by attacking the peaceful and unsuspecting Choctaw village on Attoyac Bayou in southeastern Rusk County, Texas, where they murdered eleven.[8] The survivors split up, with most leaving Texas, at least temporarily. They believed Texas in 1840 was a dangerous place for any Indian.[9]

Between 1840 and 1843, elements of the Mexican Militia, led by Vicente Cordova, fought a guerrilla war against the Anglo settlers,[10] using warriors from remnant groups of displaced tribes, primarily Cherokee but including some Yowani Choctaw. The conflict culminated in the occupation of San Antonio in September 1842 by General Adrian Woll.[11] There, both Indian and Mexican regulars were involved in the defeat of the Dawson Expedition[12] and the Battle of Salado Creek.[13] The Mexican troops soon departed from Texas.

For the remnant tribes, peace would come the following year with Sam Houston as Texas President. The Treaty of Birds Fort brought an end to hostilities, especially for the Cherokees residing at Monclova, Mexico under Chief Chicken Trotter, also known as Devereaux Jarrett Bell.[14] Although only a few Choctaw were involved with the Monclova group, the peace would have long-lasting effects on the Yowani. Following the end of the Texas-Indian Wars, some of the Yowani returned to East Texas, where they settled with members of Chicken Trotters Texas Cherokees, along with Old Settler and Ridge Party Cherokees, and McIntosh Party Creeks; the three groups combined to form the Mount Tabor Indian Community.[15]

Most of the men served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. In the early 20th century, several members of the Yowani Choctaw, led by William Clyde Thompson of Texas,[16] relocated to the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory to be included in the Dawes Commission Final Rolls as citizens by blood of the Choctaw Nation. This would enable them to be eligible for allotments of land as the communal land of the tribe was allocated to individual households.[17] A long political struggle ensued between 1898 and 1909, as Choctaw leaders did not want the long-absent Yowani to receive some of their land.

In 1905 all the Yowani were stricken from the Final Rolls of the Choctaw Nation.[18] Thompson appealed the matter to the United States Supreme Court.[19] After a favorable response[20] the families were included on a 1909 Choctaw reinstatement list giving them citizenship in the Choctaw Nation.[21]

Origins

The Yowani Choctaws gained their name from the town in which they lived. The Choctaw people had established a town named Yowani, near what is now the town of Shubuta, Mississippi along the Chickasawhay River.[22] Over time, this group expanded its holdings westward to the eastern dividing ridge of Bogue Homa, then northward as far as present day Pachuta Creek. From this position the territory ran south to the confluence of the Chickasawhay and Buckatunna Rivers.[22] To the east, its lands ran into what are now Greene and Choctaw Counties in Alabama, bordering on the Muscogee-Creek Nation.

By 1764, a group of Yowani had moved to Louisiana and established contact with the Koasati and Caddo. Over time, the Yowani adopted Caddo customs. The groups became very interlinked, and anthropologist James Mooney later listed the Yowani as one of the thirteen divisions of the Caddo Confederacy.[3]

Moving westward

At the time that the Yowanis ventured into Louisiana, the territory was under Spanish control. In 1800, Spain traded Louisiana to France, and the following year the United States purchased the land. Many residents of Louisiana, including many of the Indian tribes, did not wish to be under the authority of the United States. Spain agreed to allow several Indian tribes, including the Yowani Choctaw and the Alabama-Coushatta, to relocate to the neighboring Spanish province of Texas.[4] Other Indian tribes later emigrated to Texas to avoid the Americans; this included the Cherokee, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, Shawnee, Delaware, Quapaw, Kickapoo and Miami Indians.[23] Following the Mexican War of Independence, Mexico assumed control of Texas. In 1824, another group of Yowani, led by Atahobia, petitioned the Mexican government to settle within the province of Texas.[4] They were given permission to establish several villages east of the Trinity River and west of the border with Louisiana.

During the period between 1810 and 1836, many of the relocated tribes, including the Yowani Choctaw, were often subject to attacks from the Comanche who roamed the western part of Texas, as well as the Lipan Apache, who were located in the southern part of the province.[23] The Yowani often joined forces with the English-speaking settlers against the nomadic tribes.

By 1832, all but two families had left the traditional Yowani lands in Mississippi to migrate west.[24] Although some settled briefly in what is now Rapides Parish, Louisiana, by 1850 many of the Yowani had settled in the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory.[24] A small number did remain in east Texas forming a part of the Mount Tabor Indian Community and in Louisiana establishing a close bond with the Coushatta.[25]

Texas Indian Wars 1835–1843

In 1835, English-speaking settlers and some anti-Santa Anna Tejanos in Texas launched the Texas Revolution to gain independence from Mexico.[26] The provisional Texas government sent Sam Houston, a man much respected by the Cherokee tribe, to negotiate a treaty with the Indians living in East Texas. A treaty was concluded at Bowles Village on February 23, 1836, between the Cherokees and Twelve Associated Tribes and the provisional Texas government. This treaty was the first in an attempt to form an intertribal community in which the Choctaw were fully involved.[27]

In March 1836, the Republic of Texas was established and won its full independence from Mexico the following month.[26] Elected the first president of the Republic, Houston continued to negotiate peace with the various Indian tribes. After 1837, the Yowani villages were combined to form a single village on Attoyac Bayou in extreme southeastern Rusk County.[28] An 1837 census of Indians in the Republic of Texas noted that 70 Yowani Choctaw lived in this village, along with several Chickasaw. The census also stated that these people were peaceable.[28]

The Texas Legislature refused to ratify many of Houston's treaties. The second president of the Republic, Mirabeau Lamar,[29] did not share Houston's respect for the native tribes, and refused to honor Houston's treaties.[30] New settlers to the region often settled on lands that had been granted to Indian tribes, and some tribes retaliated against them.[31] In the summer of 1839, Lamar ordered the Texian Army to attack the Cherokee villages.[32] The Americans eventually drove the Cherokee out of Texas and into Indian Territory and northern Mexico.

Several small Cherokee bands escaped detection and were not forcibly removed from their homes. One small band, led by Chicken Trotter, also known by his birth name of Devereaux Jarrett Bell, attempted to regain some of their lands in 1840.[33] While his petition was pending in the Republic legislature, Bell and several other Cherokees were involved in an altercation with three white men near Nacogdoches. The resulting scuffle led to the deaths of the three whites. Knowing the state of Indian–white relations, Bell led his group to Monclova, Tamualipas, Mexico.

Angry at the death of the three white men, a vigilante group formed in Nacogdoches. Unable to catch up to Bell and his group, the vigilantes decided to extract vengeance from the nearby Yowani village where they murdered some eleven Choctaw men, women, and children.[34] After the attack, the Yowani Choctaws abandoned their village. Some returned to Mississippi and others moved to Indian Territory to join the Choctaw Nation.[35] A third group joined the Caddo at the Brazos Reservation[36] further west and eventually accompanied the Caddo to a reservation in what is now Oklahoma. A fourth group, led by Woody Jones, chose to remain in East Texas, moving further into the piney woods to avoid detection by Texas military forces.

Throughout Lamar's term as president, fighting persisted between the Republic of Texas and various groups of Indians, including those under Chicken Trotter/Bell, who launched a guerrilla campaign against Texans. When Lamar's term expired, Sam Houston was elected to a second term as president. Houston began treaty negotiations with the tribes, culminating in the Treaty of Birds Fort, which was concluded on September 29, 1843. This treaty ended most hostilities in Texas with the immigrant tribes. Although the Yowani were not a direct party to it, they had several ties to those in attendance. Many of the displaced tribes, including some Yowani Choctaw, formed a new community, Mount Tabor Indian Community. Many Yowani continued to live under the authority of Woody Jones in Houston County near the border with Trinity County.[37]

Mount Tabor Indian Community

The Mount Tabor Indian Community formed following the purchase of 10,000 acres of land in Rusk County by Benjamin Franklin Thompson in the spring of 1844. Thompson was a non-Indian married to Annie Martin, daughter of John Martin, first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Nation. These Cherokee were joined by those that had been a part of the original Texas Cherokee Nation who had removed to Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico,[38] following the Cherokee War. The community continued to grow after Texas joined the United States in 1845.

President James K. Polk in 1844 granted permission to the Ridge Party and Old Settlers of the Cherokee to relocate there from Indian Territory.[39] The community was named by John Adair Bell, a signer of the Treaty of New Echota.[40] More Yowani Choctaw, led by Atahobia's grandson Archibald Thompson and Nashoba's grandson Jeremiah Jones, relocated to the Mount Tabor Indian Community before 1850.[41]. These were followed by McIntosh Creek Indians, led by brothers William and Thomas Berryhill, also before 1850.[42] Today the remaining Yowani Choctaw are an integral part of the Mount Tabor Indian Community.

Civil War

When the American Civil War erupted, almost all of the people living at Mount Tabor supported the Confederacy. It had promised the Native American tribes a state of their own if the Confederacy won the war. Many enlisted in the Confederate Army as part of the Cherokee Mounted Rifles under Stand Watie, who was commissioned as a high-ranking officer. During the war, two other Cherokee communities formed in Texas. These were mainly for the protection of Confederate soldiers families. Besides Rusk County, another Cherokee community formed near present-day Waco, as well as one in Wood County near Quitman. The Wood County group consisted of both Cherokee and Choctaw.

While a few of the Mount Tabor Yowani enlisted with the Cherokee Mounted Rifles, most became part of the Texas 14th Cavalry under John Martin Thompson. The war took a heavy toll on the community, as nearly one-quarter of all male residents were dead by the end of the war.

Dawes Commission

Between 1866 and the close of the Dawes Commission Final Rolls in the early 20th century, 80% of the Cherokee left Mount Tabor to return north to the Cherokee Nation. Most of the Texas Choctaw stayed in Texas, with a few relocating to the Chickasaw Nation. Only during the period of registration in the Dawes Rolls under the Commission, when members registered to be eligible for allotments of communal land, did a number of Choctaw take the opportunities available and move north.

A handful settled in Atoka in the Choctaw Nation. One family moved to Tuskahoma. The majority moved into Pickens County in the Chickasaw Nation near present-day Marlow, Oklahoma.

Many of the Yowani Choctaw from Texas sought to register on the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes as Citizens by Blood in the Choctaw Nation. Because of their long residence in Texas, the Choctaw Nation officially opposed them and challenged theirs and other registrations. In 1906, 70 members of the Yowani Choctaw who lived in Texas were stricken from the membership rolls of the Choctaw Nation. William C. Thompson and his cousin John Thurston Thompson, Jr. were among them, and sued to be reinstated. In 1909, the United States Supreme Court ruled in their favor, saying that the Texas Choctaw should be reinstated.

Recent years

Throughout the twentieth century, there have been a number strong leaders among the Texas Choctaw community within the overall Mount Tabor Indian Community, which has been recognized as a tribe by the state. These include William Clyde Thompson[43] and Martin Luther Thompson, who helped gain registration for their peoples as citizens "by Blood" in the Choctaw Nation. They also helped to keep the Texas community viable. The Cherokee predominated by number in the group and generally led the community.

No Choctaw was selected as Chairman of the Executive Committee before 1988. When the Cherokee Nation adopted its 1975 constitution, it excluded the Texas Cherokees and Associate Bands-Mount Tabor Indian Community as a band or affiliate of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, although they had been considered so during the earlier part of the 20th century.[44] Cherokee who remained in Texas were no longer recognized formally as part of a tribe or as Native Americans by the Federal Government. In 1972 Judge Foster T. Bean,[45] an original enrollee on the Guion Miller Roll,[46] took over as Chairman of the Texas Cherokees and Associate Bands. Keeler became Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Judge Bean served until retiring from in 1988. He was replaced by J.C. Thompson,[47] who as a descndant of the Thompson-McCoy family was of Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw descent.[48] Thompson held the position for eleven years until Terry Easterly took over in 1999.

Terry was descended from Arthur Thompson, brother of William Clyde Thompson. Terry was the first woman to hold the position and the first who did not have Cherokee blood. Terry was Choctaw, Chickasaw and Muscogee-Creek, and was the first person of Creek ancestry to head the community. In 2001, she was succeeded by Peggy Dean-Atwood, Choctaw and Chickasaw, a descendant of Archibald Thompson. In 2002, J.C. Thompson was then again chosen as Chairman and remained in that capacity until August 2018. He was succeeded by William Ellis "Billy" Bean. Chairman Bean is the great grandson of Mount Tabor Chief John Ellis Bean, an original enrollee on the Cherokee Old Settler payment roll. He is assisted by Deputy Chairman David Carlisle, who is also of Choctaw and Chickasaw descent, through the Thompson-McCoy family.

The Community is continuing to seek Federal Acknowledgment as an American Indian Tribe. On May 10, 2017, Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed into law 84 SCR 25, recognizing the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Texas.[49] The community adopted a new constitution in August of 2017,[50] establishing a three-tier government made up of the five-member Executive Committee; a seven-member Tribal Council, and a three-member Tribal Court. There are more than 500 enrolled members, with offices in both Kilgore and Troup, Texas. The Community also supports the Mount Tabor Indian Heritage Center[51]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4. October, 1935
  2. ↑ Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910, rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959)
  3. 1 2 William B. Glover, "A History of the Caddo Indians", The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4. October, 1935
  4. 1 2 3 Correspondence Between General Manuel Mier y Terán and Texas 1828-1832
  5. ↑ Texas Indian Papers 1837, census of tribes in the Republic, attitudes of the Yowani Choctaws and allied Chickasaw of Attoyac Bayou, Nacogdoches District
  6. ↑ "Treaty of Bowles Village", Cherokee and Twelve Associated Tribes and the Republic of Texas: February 23, 1836
  7. ↑ "Expulsion of the Cherokees", Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  8. ↑ "Indians; Republics of Mexico and Texas", George Klos, The Handbook of Texas Online
  9. ↑ "Indian Relations in Texas", Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  10. ↑ "Vicente Cordova", by Robert Bruce Blake, Handbook of Texas Online
  11. ↑ "Adrian Woll", Handbook of Texas Online
  12. ↑ "Dawson Massacre", by Thomas W. Cutrer, Handbook of Texas Online
  13. ↑ Handbook of Texas Online, Salado Creek, Battle of, by Thomas W. Cutrer
  14. ↑ "Treaty of Birds Fort, September 29, 1843", Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas
  15. ↑ 1850 United States Census, Canton Beat EU
  16. ↑ Kent Carter, The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914, Ancestry Publishing 1999, ISBN 0-916489-85-X, 13:978-0916489854
  17. ↑ William C. Thompson, et al. vs. Choctaw Nation, MCR File 341, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee, Oklahoma
  18. ↑ Letter of April 4, 1905 from Thomas Ryan, First Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs to Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, Indian Territory, re: Willian C. Thompson et al. MCR 341, MCR 7124, MCR 581 and MCR 458.
  19. ↑ Dr. Douglas Hale, William C. Thompson and the Choctaw-Chickasaw Paper Chase, Norman, OK: Oklahoma State University
  20. ↑ United States Department of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior-Choctaw Citizenship Cases, #4 William C. Thompson et al., pgs 151-157
  21. ↑ Choctaw Re-instatement list, correspondence from the Department of the Interior to the Commissioner of the Five Civilized Tribes, February 20, 1909
  22. 1 2 Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico By Frederick Webb Hodge, Smithsonian Institution American Ethnology, Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, pgs 1001-1002, ISBN 0-313-21281-3; 13:978-0313212819
  23. 1 2 "Texas Indian Papers 1825-1845", Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas
  24. 1 2 Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910, rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959
  25. ↑ Kathy LaCombe-Tell, "Coushatta heritage reaches deep into the past of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana", Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, June 2004
  26. 1 2 Eugene C. Barker and James W. Pohl, "Texas Revolution", Handbook of Texas Online
  27. ↑ Treaty of Bowles Village February 23, 1836, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas
  28. 1 2 Texas Indian Papers, Census of Tribes, Texas State library and Archives, Austin, Texas
  29. ↑ Herbert Gambrell, "Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar", Handbook of Texas Online,
  30. ↑ Thomas H. Kreneck, "Samuel Houston", Handbook of Texas Online
  31. ↑ Killough Massacre, by Christopher Long, Handbook of Texas Online,
  32. ↑ Handbook of Texas online, Cherokee War
  33. ↑ The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas, 1966 Pemberton Press, Austin, Texas, Edited by Gifford White, Nacogdoches County
  34. ↑ Handbook of Texas Online, Indians, Texas and Mexican Republics, by George Klos
  35. ↑ Some East Texas Native Families: Texas Cherokees and Associate Bands Genealogy Project: Rootsweb Global Search: Familyties
  36. ↑ "Caddo, Twenty Years Without A Home", Texas Beyond History
  37. ↑ Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs correspondence between A. C. Tonner, Acting Commissioner for the Dawes Commission, and the Secretary of the Interior, April 29, 1904; ref. Land 25846-1904, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City
  38. ↑ <Grant Foreman, History of the Five Civilized Tribes>
  39. ↑ Texas Indian Papers 1835-1845, Texas State Archives, Austin, Texas
  40. ↑ Cherokee Cavaliers by Litton and Dale, page 80
  41. ↑ 1850 United States Census, State of Texas, Canton Beat Enumeration District, Smith County
  42. ↑ 1850 United States Census, State of Texas, Rusk County
  43. ↑ United States Department of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior-Choctaw Citizenship Cases, #4 William C. Thompson et al., pgs 151-157
  44. ↑ 1973 Proposed Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
  45. ↑ Minutes to meeting TCAB Executive Committee, March 3, 1972, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
  46. ↑ John Starr Bean, Guion Miller Roll: Kilgore, TX, ap # 23615, roll# 4489
  47. ↑ Minutes to meeting TCAB September 10, 1988, Kilgore Country Club, Kilgore, Gregg County, Texas,
  48. ↑ Sally McCoy 1818 Chickasaw Annuity Roll
  49. ↑
  50. ↑ 2017 Constitution of the Mount Tabor Indian Community
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