Tribal, Choctaw Nation

CHOCTAW NATION TRIBE SEAL -  An unstrung bow, encompassing three arrows and a smoking pipe-hatchet, symbolizes history and tradition of the Choctaw Indians.  This seal was used on all official papers of the Choctaw Nation until 1907, when the Indian and Oklahoma Territories united as the State of Oklahoma.

The three arrows symbolize the three great Choctaw Chiefs - Apuckshunnubbe, Pushmataha and Moshulatubbee - who signed the Treaty of Doaks Stand in 1820, by which the United States assigned the tribe a vast domain west (all of Southern Oklahoma) for a part of the Choctaw land in Mississippi.  Ten years later when the Choctaws gave up all the rest of their old home country in Mississippi and moved west they divided the new land into three districts and each district was named for one of these great chiefs.