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NATIVE ENSLAVERS

everal American Indian nations officially sided with the Confederate States of America. Fay Yarbrough’s deeply researched and cogently written history of one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” investigates the reasons behind the Choctaw decision to ally with the South, the fighting

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