Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818–1918

The heartbreaking story of the Choctaws in Mississippi and of the men who attempted to “civilize” and “Christianize” them. A very detailed and informative account of the religious and political climate of the Choctaw Nation in the years leading up to their removal. It's a story that echoes that of countless other American Indian nations...of a people who have their culture, traditions and beliefs slowly and systematically stripped from them in the name of progress and religion.

The culprits? White missionaries, the U.S. government, and even some of their own leaders, as in the final years prior to removal the Choctaw Nation was on the verge of civil war, their loyalties firmly divided between the full blooded chiefs who held to the old ways and the half white, much younger leaders who for their own political gain asserted themselves into positions of power.