Legal Terms from the Choctaw Council Meetings of 1826–1828
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcia Haag
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 67-84
Description
Article discusses the translation of a various English legal terms into Choctaw by leader and intellectual, Peter Perkins Pitchlynn; considers the decisions he made in conveying those terms to Choctaw and how those terms were translated back into English when his notes were translated and published in 2013.