George W. Harkins
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George W. Harkins (died 1890) was a prominent chief of the Choctaw tribe during the removal era.[1]
Harkins served as Chief of the Apukshunnubbee District of the Choctaw Nation from 1850-1857, and was the nephew of renowned Choctaw chief Greenwood Leflore.[2] His 1832 “Farewell Letter to the American People” denouncing the removal of the Choctaws was widely published, and is still widely regarded as one of the most important documents of Native American history.[3] Harkins was educated at Center College in Danville, Kentucky, and received a law degree from Cumberland University. In 1834 he was judge of the Red River District and in 1856 chief of Apuckshunnubbee District in the Choctaw Nation west. After the division of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, he lived in the Chickasaw Nation. A well-known speaker, he was called the “Rawhide Orator.”[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Oklahoma Historical Society, Archives Division, Choctaw—Principal Chief, No. 19457
- ^ a b Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1891).
- ^ "Farewell Letter to the American People," 1832. The American Indian, December 1926. Reprinted in Great Documents in American Indian History, edited by Wayne Moquin with Charles Van Doren. New York: DaCapo Press. 1995; 151.
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