Pushmataha
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Pushmataha ( – December 24, 1824; also spelled Pooshawattaha, Pooshamallaha, or Poosha Matthaw) was one of the three regional chiefs of the major divisions of the Choctaw in the 19th century. Many historians considered him the "greatest of all Choctaw chiefs". Pushmataha was highly regarded among Native Americans, Europeans, and white Americans, for his skill and cunning in both war and diplomacy.
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Key facts
- Officeholder.name
- Pushmataha
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- Pushmataha_high_resolution.jpg
- Officeholder.image_size
- 250px
- Officeholder.caption
- 1824 portrait of Pushmataha by Charles Bird King, in History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
- Officeholder.office
- Paramount Chief of the Choctaw Nation
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- Chief of the Six Towns District
- Officeholder.term_start
- 1815
- Officeholder.term_end
- 1824
- Officeholder.term_start2
- 1800
- Officeholder.term_end2
- 1824
- Officeholder.successor2
- Tappenahoma
- Officeholder.birth_date
- 1764, exact date unknown
- Officeholder.birth_place
- Taladega, Choctaw Nation
- Officeholder.death_place
- Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Officeholder.nationality
- Choctaw
- Officeholder.resting_place
- Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Officeholder.children
- 5
- Military personnel.embed
- yes
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Political party
- independent politician
- Military rank
- brigadier general
- Image
- Pushmataha high resolution.jpg
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- Pushmataha
- date of death
- 1824-12-24
- date of birth
- 1764-01-01
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- place of burial
- Congressional Cemetery
- nickname
- General Indian
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- croup
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