Word: chickasaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage made Murray a member of the Chickasaw tribe and, through his wife, he came into possession of several thousand fertile acres of land on which he began farming. At this time he was tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand...
...your issue dated Dec. 16 on p. 12 in a footnote you state: ''Unlike Negro blood, Indian blood carries no social stigma in the Southwest, PROVIDED it is from one of the five civilized tribes: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, Seminole." Just what is the significance of that statement...