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Wright, Allen , Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic (1866-1870); Attorney, Choctaw Nation at the Fort Smith Council (1866-1885), 1826-1885

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Biographical:

Wright represented the Choctaw Nation at the Fort Smith Council and signed the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866. When the Federal commissioners proposed to consolidate all of the Indian Territories tribes under an intertribal council, he suggested the term Oklahoma as the name for the Territory.