James Brown

James Brown (d. March 1839) was a leader of the Chickasaw Nation of North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Delegation to George Washington

James Brown the Younger, along with William Colbert, and Coahoma (William McGillivray), was one member of a Chickasaw delegation that met with George Washington in 1795. According to one account, they were in Philadelphia seeking military aid from the United States in a defensive war against the Muscogee Confederation. According to an unidentified, elderly U.S. Army veteran, resident in Arkansas as of 1894who had accompanied the Chickasaw on the Indian Removal migration to the Indian TerritoryBrown's descendants had possession of document signed by Washington granting Brown rank as a captain in the U.S. Army.

Creek War involvement and Brown as a signatory

Brown was one of a number of Chickasaw who fought with Andrew Jackson's troops against the Red Stick Creeks during the Creek War. Brown and Levi Colbert were the sellers of the tract that became the subject of the Salt Lick Reservation controversy.

Death

Brown died in a smallpox outbreak at Fort Coffee during Indian Removal in March 1839 and was buried there with honors.