Chickasaw Indians, by Ralph Evans Page: 3 of 8
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in order to expand their empire from New Orleans to Canada.
river
They had won every other tribe to their side
but the Chickasaw tribe
still held out against the French and still remained friendly to the
Bienville , the great French empire builder, decided he
English.
would Just eliminate them.
The Chickasaw tribe was never very large
at the most it was about six thousand people.
Bienville’s plan was
to call d’Artoquette
and his army from Canada to help him from
the
While he came up the Mississippi from New Orleans.
north.
d’Artoquette got there first and learned to his sorrow what kind
The Chickasaws, though greatly out
of warrior
he was up against.
Killed d’Artoquette, routed his army and captured all of
numbered,
the south sighted the Chickasaw village.
Bienville expected the In-
dians to fight him with bows and arrows.
V.hat he did not know was
Colbert had col-
lected all the guns and amtnition left by d’Artoquette and showed the
Indians how to use them.
already been defeated.
Because he was a good soilder he barely got away with
he attacked.
his own life and a few of his men.
Orl ans •
his guns end amunition.
On May 26, 1736 or about five days later, Bienville, coming from
that in the Chickasaw village was an English Scout, Logan Colbert.
(This is the beginning of our Chickasaw Colverts).
Bienville did not know that his other army from the north had
Thinking that it was an easy task before him
This stopped the French from consolidating Canada with New
Although they owened the Mississippi they were never able
to control it because of the Chickasaws.
Logan ColVert married a Chickasaw Indian and his son William
Colvert became one of the Chicksaws great chiefs.
Rober8ori» a resi<^ent of Tupelo and an amateur historian, has
in his possession a medallion given to William Colvert by George
His artifact collection is ’’Out of this world”, it
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Evans, Ralph. Chickasaw Indians, by Ralph Evans, text, Date Unknown; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1626568/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Ardmore Public Library.