Greg O'Brien and Scholarship on the Choctaw

In the book Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830, historian Greg O'Brien describes the importance of traditional religion for the Choctaw Nation, speakers of a Muskhogean language related to Chickasaw and Creek.

In the book Empire and Others, check for O'Brien's assessment of Choctaw effort to maintain trade with the British.

Please consult Greg O'Brien, "Protecting Trade Through War: Choctaw Elites and British Occupation of the Floridas," in Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern, eds., Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pages 149-166.