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Welcome to the Choctaw Bay Indian Nation Educational Website. 
 
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Okhissa iskitinosi ako~hash aiabehashke

attat hofantichi

 The Choctaw Nation citizens are located in Florida, Big Springs of Choctawhatchee (1800), called Marianna today, of Jackson County, Territory 9,

Jackson Heights,Fort Brooks at Tampa Bay,and Fort Cooper at Hawthorne Florida  

 

The Choctaw Nation is known for their vast agriculture like orange trees, grapefruit trees, yellow plum trees, pecan trees, miracle berries, Sassasfras...etc.  Our ancestor's farmed potatoes and are also remembered for their generosity in providing relief during the Irish Potato Famine.  Further, produced and manufactured cotton and sugar and sweet potatoes for the United States on allotted lands.

 

 We have a rich inheritance, legacy and ancient history throughout the land. 

Today the Choctaw descendents of Marianna, Jackson County, Florida, still inhabits their Tribal lands and allotments.

 

The Choctaw Treaty of 1786-1830, Foreign Relations, American State Papers, and Atoka Treaty. This Treaty created the Dawes Commission.

 

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 Bay Indians, needs accountability and Reconciliation with our state and federal agencies, in righteousness and justice.

                              

Choctaw Nation

Governing Body

Tribal Council Members:

Chief, Alfonso James, Jr. 

 Secretary, Conchita E. Gibbs
  Tribal Planner, Theresa D. Corral
Tribal Media Communications Director, Craig Calhoun 

Tribal Education Director, Vacant
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
Freddie Caswell, 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.