SO MANY LITTLE REPUBLICS - BRITISH NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CHOCTAW CONFEDERACY, 1765

The Choctaw Indians known to European colonizers of the eighteenth cen tury were a multiethnic confederacy that had emerged in the protohisto ric period. This essay reviews that process and uses the 1765 British treaty and land grant negotiations with the Choctaw to show how the Ch octaw continued to insist on the divisional autonomy that reflected th eir ethnic diversity, even after a hundred years of contact.