Stereotypes
Tom ColeTom Cole discusses the ways in which Chickasaws do not fit the traditional American Indian stereotype. He gives the example of Robert Tuttle, former Ambassador to the United Kingdom, as an example of a Chickasaw Indian who defies this common stereotype.
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