The former Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will be laid to rest
Monday morning.
Chief Phillip Martin died Thursday night, after having a massive stroke
while driving a week ago.
Chief Phillip Martin, the
former Choctaw Indian Tribal leader who served in public office for 48 years and
helped to lead his people from abject poverty to unprecedented growth and
prosperity with economic development initiatives that included the construction
of two casinos in Neshoba County, died on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at a Jackson ...
Former Choctaw Indian Tribal
Chief Phillip Martin was admitted to a Jackson hospital on Monday and was still
there Tuesday morning, a close friend of the family told The Neshoba Democrat
this morning.
