MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians
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Lands
Mobile and Washington Counties in southwestern Alabama, near the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers
Countries United States
Facts 4
History
Its history dates an effort to obtain federal aid for Alabama Choctaw schools to 1934.
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History
The Tribe's land history describes logging as both a source of jobs and displacement for families.
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Land
The Tribe's introduction places its communities in Mobile and Washington Counties in southwestern Alabama.
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History
Its history explains MOWA as a name drawn from Mobile and Washington Counties.
Source: MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, We Are Choctaw: A Historical Account of Tradition and Progress - MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Context and resources
Land, Work And Community
The Tribe locates its community in southern Alabama and connects the name MOWA with Mobile and Washington Counties. Its land history describes how logging in the late 1800s displaced families while providing work. It describes loss of land through debts or unpaid taxes, and families cooperating to move logs to market. These are the Tribe's historical accounts of livelihood and land, not a finding about any present property's ownership.
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Sources For This Layer
MOWA: The Tribe In Its Own Words (opens in a new tab)
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
MOWA: About The Tribe (opens in a new tab)
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
MOWA: Land And Work (opens in a new tab)
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
Education And Self-Definition
The Tribe's Social Barriers chapter recounts exclusion from schools and parents taking their children's access to court. It dates a school-aid request to 1934. The same chapter challenges outsiders' descriptions that obscured the community's Choctaw identity. This is the Tribe's retrospective account; discriminatory language quoted from older publications is evidence of exclusion, not terminology adopted by this profile.
Context reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
Sources For This Layer
MOWA: Education And Social Barriers (opens in a new tab)
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
From the publisher's own pages
MOWA: The Tribe In Its Own Words (opens in a new tab)
Begin with the Tribe's own introduction. This profile does not certify the site's current recognition, membership or service claims.
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
MOWA: About The Tribe (opens in a new tab)
Read the Tribe's account of place, community identity and advocacy, with contemporary assertions attributed to the publisher.
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
MOWA: Land And Work (opens in a new tab)
Follow the Tribe's historical account of land pressures, logging work and community cooperation.
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
MOWA: Education And Social Barriers (opens in a new tab)
Read the Tribe's history of exclusion, schooling and identity. Discriminatory historical descriptions are not labels adopted here.
MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, source reviewed by ZOTHEOS.
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