Chickasaw Holding history

Grant Foreman (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1930).

Grant Foreman, Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932).

Then in 1937, John advised his son Royce Gauntt that, “You’re the last of 12 children; the others have gone from home and you now can have the telephone company since no one else wanted it.”

Royce went to college and then joined the Navy in 1942.

In 1956, while still on active duty, he secured an REA Loan.

In 1962, Chickasaw Telephone moved their business office from Lone Grove to Ardmore after they had expanded into seven more operating areas.

In 1975 they also acquired the Sulphur area and moved the business office to Sulphur on July 1, 1975.

After several legal challenges, Chickasaw tribe members ratified a modified version that received approval from the United States government in 1983.

Bill Anoatubby in 1987, the Chickasaw Nation entered the twenty-first century as a successful economic and political entity.

Chickasaw Personal Communications, Inc. (CPC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chickasaw Holding Company, Inc. headquartered in Sulphur, OK. CPC was formed in 1989 and currently operates office locations in Ardmore, Norman and Oklahoma City.

Duane Champagne, Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992).

Today Chickasaw Holding Company, which was formed in 1999, includes 14 separate companies.

On May 31, 2012 CPC acquired Leon’s Radio in Oklahoma City and TD’s Radio in Norman.

On February 11, 2019 CPC acquired Radios Unlimited, d/b/a/ Chickasaw Communications, located in Oklahoma City.