Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn (1806-1881) was a prominent Choctaw leader during the removal period, and played a major role in building the national tribal government in the nineteenth century. He was the son of John Pitchlynn, a white trader, and Sophia Folsom, a mixed-blood Choctaw. Educated as a youth at local schools, he attended the Choctaw Academy in Kentucky and the University of Nashville in 1827-28.