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Sulphur Springs, located in south-central Oklahoma on what is now Chickasaw National Recreation area presents a complex tale of frontier politics. Located around a series of mineral and fresh-water springs, Sulphur Springs was an attempt by European Americans to create a health resort on land owned by the Chickasaw Nation. National politics, including the Dawes Act, and issues involving water quality led to the purchase of the town’s improvements in 1902, and again in 1904. This purchase became...
Chickasaw Pottery Vessel Form and Function in the Early Historic Period (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study of Chickasaw pottery vessel forms dating to ca.1700 C.E. explores 268 reconstructed analytical vessels from six okaakinafa’ midden pits across two sites (22Le907 and 22Po755) located in and around Tupelo in Lee and Pontotoc counties, Mississippi. Ethnohistorical information, prior research, and oral traditions are gleaned for interpretive...
Excavation of a Chickasaw Homestead in Tupelo (2016)
In March and April 2015, a Phase II cultural resources investigation was conducted to assess the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility of the Webb Site (22LE516) in Tupelo, Mississippi. Excavations identified 36 cultural features, including the outlines of two Chickasaw houses and several nearby clay-extraction pits, or okaakinafa'. Materials recovered from the site suggest a single-component occupation between A.D. 1680 and 1760. The site lies near the eighteenth-century...
Good Fare and Tribal Affairs: The George and Saleechie Colbert Site (2015)
The George and Saleechie (Shillichi') Colbert site in northeastern Mississippi is an early 19th century Chickasaw occupation that has yielded extensive evidence of a well-travelled site, with a wide and prolific scatter of period artifacts, including pearlware, flintlock gun parts, wagon and harness hardware, Chickasaw pottery, trade beads, and in situ architectural foundation features. Historic documentation indicates that Colbert’s home served as the Chickasaw council house, where the treaty...
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Texas (1998)
In April 1998, St. Louis District personnel visited the Adjutant General’s Department of Texas (AGTX) at Camp Mabry, the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, and the Texas Historical Commission in Austin to research archaeological and historic buildings survey work conducted on Army National Guard facilities in the state. This document reports the history of cultural investigations on federally owned or supported Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG) facilities, lists archaeological sites and...