The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw, an Indigenous Indian people, and the only one in the state of Mississippi. On April 20, 1945, this tribe
From left to right, Chief Wesley Johnson, Thomas B. Sullivan, Culberson Davis, James E. Arnold, and Emil John.
Group of Mississippi Choctaw males in the late 50s or early 60s. Photograph by Bob Ferguson.
Phillip Martin and family in the late 1950s or early 1960s
Phillip Martin
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Phillip Martin was a Native American political leader, the democratically elected Tribal Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a federally recognized tribe in east central Mississippi. Mar
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
…Source: Phillip Martin, who had served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, returned to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to visit his former home. After seeing the…
2004 portrait