Word: choctaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adam P. Bailey '01, who is part Oklahoma Choctaw and part white, says he has never been torn about his identity but that people often don't realize that he is part Native American...
...have the same chance as a blue-eyed blond in America. But racial quotas and set-asides are tearing us apart. They breed white resentment and the suspicion of black inferiority, and they haven't kept pace with our multiethnic society." Connerly, who is of African, French, Irish and Choctaw descent, is married to an Irish-American woman; their son is married to a Vietnamese American. "What racial box on the university admission form is their child supposed to check?" asks Connerly...
...imported diseases like smallpox. The 500,000 or so Indian inhabitants of Eastern North America at the time of the first English settlements were not so easily conquered. These resilient and warlike nations -- principally the Algonquin and Iroquois in the north, the Muskoghean and Choctaw in the south -- were happy to trade with the white man and adopt his weapons, but not his Christian faith or his mores. And they would fight to the death to defend their lands from encroachment...