Correspondence Regarding the Sale of Choctaw-Chickasaw Tribal Timber Lands in 19371937-07-05unknownhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/enghttp://congressarchives.org/record/CAC_CC_053_12_10_63_0020Senator Elmer Thomas received a letter from William Zimmerman, Jr. of the Office of Indian Affairs in response to a protest by Walter Colbert regarding the sale of Choctaw-Chickasaw tribal timber lands. Zimmerman explains that due to the impracticality of properly administering the scattered lands, it is in the tribes' best interest to sell them to the highest bidder. Senator Thomas had requested information on the reasons for the sale, and Zimmerman provided a detailed explanation.