{"product_id":"the-chickasaws-volume-109-9780806110424","title":"The Chickasaws, Volume 109","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst an ethnohistorical background, the author relates the story of the Chickasaws from their first recorded contacts with Europeans in the lower Mississippi Valley in 1540 to final dissolution of the Chickasaw Nation in 1906. Included are the years of alliance with the British, the dealings with the Americans, and the inevitable removal to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1837 under pressure from settlers in Mississippi and Alabama. Among the significant events in Chickasaw history were the tribe's surprisingly strong alliance with the South during the Civil War and the federal actions thereafter which eventually resulted in the absorption of the Chickasaw Nation into the emerging state of Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibson, Arrell M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArrell Morgan Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e (1921-1987) was the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of many books on western history, including \u003ci\u003eThe Chickasaws\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413110034706,"sku":"9780806110424","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_965f88a0-0be4-4443-b823-72d9880954a9.jpg?v=1729347390","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chickasaws-volume-109-9780806110424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}