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Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics
- Southern Cultures
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2008
- pp. 32-54
- 10.1353/scu.0.0024
- Article
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"In December 1912, Mississippi representative Pat Harrison stood before Congress and delivered an impassioned speech on behalf of the Choctaw Indians living in his district. 'Mr. Chairman,' Harrison announced, 'the Choctaw Indians always stood with the white men of the South.'"