women played in marriages between native and black people during this time so just thinking about how genderf playd a role as these allotments were playing out. >> there has been a lot of great writing on the dawes allotment process as relates to native women. see if i can remember, rose has a great podcast. with freed peoples families everyone gets an allotment so women get allotment, children get an allotment. sometimes, perhaps often these landowners are not next to each other so our decisions to be made about which land allotment of a going to live on, are we going to sell the others, uses for farmland et cetera? i know usually the man's allotment was chosen more often but there are various ways land allotments are better or worse like sometimes there's timber on it, sometimes it looks barren but there's oil underneath. as far as intermarriage, there are relatively small amounts of intermarriage especially in the choctaw nation. there are people like franklin, the father of a historian john hope franklin who talks about his grandmother being choctaw. there are stories of intermarriage whe