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George W. Harkins (d. 1890), a Choctaw, was
educated at Center College in Danville, Kentucky, and received a law
degree from Cumberland University. His 1832 open letter “To the
American People” regarding removal of the Choctaws was widely
published. In 1834 he was judge Red River District and in 1856 chief
of Apuckshunubbee District in the Choctaw Nation west. After the
division of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, he lived in the
Chickasaw Nation. A well-known speaker, he was called the “Rawhide
Orator.”
Source: H. F. O’Bierne, Leaders and
Leading Men of the Indian Territory (Chicago: American Publishers’
Association, 1891), 254; Oklahoma Historical Society, Archives Division,
Choctaw—Principal Chief, No. 19457; Chickasaw—Federal
Relations, 1888, No. 7072.
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