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A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee: (Called) William Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians

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Okah Tubbee, initially referred to as Warner McCary, was once born in Natchez, Mississippi, around 1810 to an enslaved African American woman. As a young man, he went by quite a lot of names, including James Warner, William McCary, and simply Cary. In 1836, he left Natchez to work in New Orleans with intermittent stints as a musician and cigar vendor along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. He met and married Laah Ceil, the daughter of a Delaware Indian mother and a Mohawk (or Mahican) father. In 1843, aided by local whites who believed him to be a Native American, Tubbee received a permit to live in Mississippi as a free person of color. Over the following several years he traveled extensively performing as a musician and lecturer. By 1847, Tubbee was once widely referred to as an Indian doctor and son of a Choctaw chief. Tubbee’s legend grew at the side of his fame, and by 1849 he was once reportedly ready to speak fourteen languages and play over fifty musical instruments.

Laah Ceil recorded a narrative of her husband’s life in 1848, and the Reverend Lewis Allen added an introductory essay. This 1852 edition features a version of Allen’s “Essay upon the Indian Character” and the so-{referred to as|called} Indian Covenant “between the Six Nations and the Choctaws,” signed by Pochongehala. It concludes with an original poem by Laah Ceil and a selection of letters, documents, and vouchers attesting to Okah Tubbee’s identity and his medical skill.

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