Peter Pitchlynn
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Peter Perkins Pitchlynn was a Choctaw chief of mixed Native and European heritage. He was principal chief of the Choctaw Republic from 1864-1866 and surrendered to the Union on behalf of the nation at the end of the Civil War.
Portrait of Peter Pitchlynn by George Catlin, 1834 in Fort Gibson, Arkansas.
Peter Pitchlynn in the time of the American Civil War.
Angelic sculpture marking Pitchlynn's grave, Congressional Cemetery
Choctaw
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The Choctaw are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana.
Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou Alfred Boisseau – 1847
Tullockchishko (Drinks the Juice of the Stones) was the greatest of Choctaw stickball players, 1834.
A Mississippian era engraved shell discovered at Eddyville, Kentucky