McAlester High School - Dancing Rabbit Yearbook (McAlester, OK)

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Bunting Qtahhd Ole Brer Rabblt Wld hls cotton tall Danclng along the mountaln trall Came to our Hlgh School looklng trlm To have our Annual named for hlm So after looklng hlm over well Qur mlnds upon hls name dld dwell Thlnlclng of all the storles told Of danclng rabblt IH days of old We hethought us of the treaty NVISC Made ID the tlme of scalplng lcnlves When the Choctaws were by treaty compelled To leave MISSISSIIJPJI where they then dwelled As long as the grass on the pralrle grows And the water ln 1tS places flows Take your papoose and your squaw Leave your Mlsslsslppl home to ay Llve ln another land farther away The change we thlnk IS good lor you e only thlng for you to do The Canadlan and Red RIVCYS shall he Vour houn ere the huntlng ground abounds Part of thls place IS w here we now Qver our studles our thoughtful heads bow Brer Rabblt you ve well earned the name And now we ll hand lt down to fame Danclng Rabblt' thls book we ll name That all ln the future may have the same ls. RTE MILNER 4 6 ' 6 This land shall be yours, Choctaw, ll ,, . . . , d , Th ' 1' Wh ' 1? . . ' . , ,

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Prxor to the enactment of the famous Danclng Rabblt Treaty whlch was made by the Federal Government on September I5 I83O the Choctaw lndlans reslded ln M1SS1SSlppI ln the Dancmg Rabblt Treatv the Umted States government under the personal supervlslon of the Presldent granted a portlon of the land west of the Mlsslsslppl Rlver to the Choctaw and Creek lndrans 'to them and thelr descendants to mure to them whlle they shall CXlSt as a natlon and lrve on lt When Mr Tyler assumed the dutles of Presxdent he fulhlled the condltlons of thls treaty by lssulng a patent to the Choctaw Natron on March 23 1842 whrch gave them possesslon of that part of Clclahoma known as the Choctaw Natlon The tltle to all land w1th1n the llmlts of the Choctaw N5t1OH IS based upon thls Danclng Rabblt Treaty hence the tltle to the land upon whlch our magnlflcent Hlgh School bulldmg stands rests upon the D3HClHg Rabblt Treaty and for thls reason we have seen fit to glve the name Danc1ng Rabblt' to our Annual ! 9 Y ' . ' 1 7 . ' . . I 9 7 ' ' 7 3 9 Y , t Y . . . I