Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — The Choctaw Nation. [ARTICLE]

The Choctaw Nation.

The Choctawis a fine sounding tongue, declared by Walter Lowry, once a United States Senator and fully capable of judging, as being the finest language in the world for oratory. It is easy to learn enough of it for trading purposes, but to learn it thoroughly ia very difficult. It has more words than most Indian tongues, the lexicon containing about ten thousand. The Choctaws for over fifty years have had publications in their language. They use the Homan alphabet, with some modifications. There are twenty-two letters. They now have.a regular representative form of government and . ■ yr - - -

have had for many yean. The Choctaw capital |ia Tuahkahomma. They have a general council, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives, and have County, District, and SuIjreme Courts. The Choctaw Najtion tad the prohibitory law thirty years before Maine, and it was in their constitution thirty years before Kansas had it. It is enforced fairly well, particularly as the United States intercourse laws prohibit the introduction of intoxicating liquors into the Territory. As to the general laws of the nation, they are not ss well enforced as they might be. Whipping is a favorite punishment. Journal