Okhissa iskitinosi ako~hash aiabehashke attat hofantichi
Welcome to the Choctaw Bay Indian Nation Educational Website.
The Choctaw Nation citizens are located in Florida, Hillsborough County, and Jackson County, or Territory 9.
The Choctaw Nation is known for their vast agriculture like orange trees, grapefruit trees, yellow plum trees, pecan trees, miracle berries...etc. Our ancestor's farmed potatoes and are also remembered for their generosity in providing relief during the Irish Potato Famine. Even futher, produced and manufactured cotton for the United States. We have a rich inheritance and history throughout the land.
Mingos who are considered to be "Chiefs" or "Princes" were assigned to a certain number of townships, usually you will find their ancestors still in those areas.
The Choctaw Friendship Treaty of 1786-1789, Foreign Relations, American State Papers.
The 1907 Hague Regulations and in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, as supplemented by the first Additional Protocol thereto of 1977.
The Choctaw Nation, look forward to accountability and Reconciliation with our state and federal agencies, in righteousness and justice.
Choctaw Nation
Governing Body
Tribal Council Members:
Chief, Alfonso James, Jr.
Acting Vice-Chief, Robert Jackson
Secretary, Conchita E. Gibbs
Tribal Planner, Theresa D. Corral
Tribal Media Communications Director, Craig Calhoun
Tribal Education Director, James Neal, III
Tribal IHS Coordinator, Jennifer Autman
Legal Counsel-Economic Development, Sidra Barkley
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Tribal Clerk and Notary, Annie P. Dudley
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Alfonso James, Sr., Tribal Elder
Willie Lee Williams, Tribal Elder
Jerome A. James, Tribal Elder
Henry Godwin, Tribal Elder
Cathy Boyd, Tribal Elder
Alice Collins, Tribal Elder
The law of nations is the law of sovereigns; free and independent states are moral persons, whose rights and obligations we are to establish in this treatise.