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  2. Choctaw mythology - Wikipedia

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    Today the Choctaw have three federally recognized tribes: the largest is the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, next is the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, made up of descendants of individuals who did not remove in the 1830s, and the smallest is the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, located in Louisiana. Also, the Choctaw Apache Tribe of Ebarb ...

  3. Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw culture is an ancient culture that continues to thrive within the nations and communities of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and the Yowani Choctaws in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and in Oklahoma as part of the Caddo ...

  4. Culture of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians play stickball today in the 21st century. Every year at the Choctaw Indian Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi , as well as at the Choctaw Labor Day festival in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma , stickball can be seen played on a modern-day football field.

  5. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw: Chahta Okla) is a Native American reservation [5] occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. [6] At roughly 6,952,960 acres (28,138 km 2; 10,864 sq mi), it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo, exceeding that of eight U.S. states.

  6. Four Mothers Society - Wikipedia

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    The Four Mothers Society or Four Mothers Nation is a religious, political, and traditionalist organization of Muscogee, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw people, as well as the Natchez people enrolled in these tribes, in Oklahoma. Four Mothers Society ceremonial grounds remain active today.

  7. KY’s Choctaw Academy is a marker of Native American ... - AOL

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    The Choctaw Academy dormitory building in Scott County, Ky., stands Thursday, February 1, 2024. Established in 1825, the academy was the first federally controlled residential/boarding school for ...

  8. Nanih Waiya - Wikipedia

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    AN ACT TO RETURN THE NANIH WAIYA STATE PARK AND MOUND TO THE MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS; TO AMEND SECTIONS 29-1-1 AND 55-3-47, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. Swanton, John R. (2001). Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-1109-2

  9. Jena Band of Choctaw Indians - Wikipedia

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    The first teacher noted that the children could not speak English and urgently needed educational assistance. Because of the Jena Choctaw band's small size, poverty, and isolation, federal officials planned to remove the families to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Reservation in the late 1930s. Funding shortages hampered this effort.