Greenwood Leflore was the first son of Louis LeFleur and Rebecca Cravatt. LeFlore was born on June 3, 1800 at LeFleur’s Fluff that was located in Spanish Territory where the Chickasaw Indians lived. (Greenwood City, 1) “LeFlore was a very intelligent person. He owned slaves, read and wrote , and prayed at camp meetings. When Greenwood was twelve, his father sent him to be educated by Major Donley. He could already speak English, Spanish, French, Chickasaw, and Choctaw languages before his father sent him to the school at Nashville. At the school he attended, he learned to read and write in English, studied Math and US History, and became very educated about the United States Government. He met many Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian students and
