Family History in Achilles: Oklahoma

Tina Cooper

There was a time when the entire town of Achilles, Oklahoma, belonged to the land allotment of Tina Cooper's ancestors. Cooper talks about many of the hardships that these ancestors faced as Chickasaws in the early 1900s, both economic and cultural.

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