Person: Columbus Bright, Myaamia Name: Awansaapia

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group: Bright
• ID: 2714
  

  Gender: Male

  Date of Birth: Knw 05-02-1888
  Location of Birth: N/A

  Date of Death: Knw 03-05-1960
  Location of Death: Norman, Oklahoma
• Biography/Notes:
  One of the youngest allottees, Columbus married Bessie Charley (Peoria) on Christmas Day, 1908. They had four children: Violet, William, Margaret, and Columbus, III. After his divorce in 1917, Columbus had one more son, Paul Eugene, born in 1922. Columbus was an Army Veteran, serving at Camp Pike, Arkansas, during World War I. He moved around quite a bit after his military service, spending time in Pawhuska, Oklahoma and Kansas City, Missouri. He lived in Norman, Oklahoma, when he died in 1960.