Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants-Black History Day 6, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Blood of Either Parent

Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants Black History Day 6,

Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Blood on the Side of Either Parent

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The following excerpt from H.R. 19279 61^st Congress, 2^nd Session (1910) Argument by Harry J. Cantwell p64

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the freedman roll to the roll of citizens by blood of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations the name of any person who is of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian blood on the side of either parent: 

Provided, however, That said freedman can establish by competent testimony that his or her parentage was legal and legitimate, either by lawful wedlock or an open and notorious public acknowledgment by both father and mother that said offspring is the natural  issue of the above-described Choctaw or Chickasaw parentage.”

ARGUMENT

The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal rolls made by the Dawes Commission comprehend the following classes:

(a)   Full-blood Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians

(b)  Persons of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian blood on the part of the mother.

(c)   Persons (white) of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian blood on the part of the father

(d)  Persons (white) intermarried with Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.

(e)   Persons (white) adopted as citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.

(f)   Freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations under the terms of the treaty of 1866

The basis of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes are securely founded in and flow from the following treaties and laws, to wit:

ALL of the above excerpt from H.R. 19279 61^st Congress, 2^nd Session (1910) Argument by Harry J. Cantwell p64

Lankford ANOATUBBY Chickasaw by Blood Card #958

Chickasaw by Blood #1846--M-1301 Annie McGee et al., 

Chickasaw by Blood #958--M-1301 Lankford ANOATUBBY et al.,