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Chahta Okla ( The Choctaw People )

Chahta Okla ( The Choctaw People ). By Dr. Ian Thompson, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Historic Preservation Dept. Isht Ia Ammona ( Beginnings ). Journeyed from the West with the Chickasaw Emerged from under the earth near Nvnih Waiya. Nvnih Waiya Chiluk ( Nvnih Waiya Cave ).

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Chahta Okla ( The Choctaw People )

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  1. Chahta Okla(The Choctaw People) By Dr. Ian Thompson, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Historic Preservation Dept.

  2. Isht Ia Ammona(Beginnings) • Journeyed from the West with the Chickasaw • Emerged from under the earth near Nvnih Waiya

  3. Nvnih Waiya Chiluk(Nvnih Waiya Cave)

  4. Nvnih Waiya(Leaning Mound)

  5. Chahta ChashpoAnoli (Ancient Choctaw Stories) • Corn (AD 1000) • Bow and arrow (AD 650) • Ceramic technology (1000-500 BC) • Extinction of Megafauna (12,000 BC)

  6. Chahta Aiishtia(Formation of the Contemporary Choctaw Tribe) Galloway 1995

  7. Hvshi Akuchaka Hattak Chashpo(Moundville)

  8. Hvshi Aiokatula Hattak Chashpo(Plaquemine)

  9. Chahta Iyakni(Choctaw Lands)

  10. Yakni Ifehna(TheImportance of Land) • Indigenous knowledge comes from the land through the relationships Indigenous Peoples develop and foster with the essential forces of nature. These relationships are encoded in the structure of Indigenous languages and in Indigenous political and spiritual systems. They are practiced in traditional forms of governance, and they are lived in the hearts and minds of Indigenous Peoples (Simpson 2004:378).

  11. Chahta Tikba Okla (The AncestralChoctaw People)

  12. Chahta Ohoyo Imahalaia(Choctaw Women’s Responsibilities) • Life-givers • Foundation of the community • Home-owners • Agricultural producers • Domestic activities

  13. Chahta Hattak Imahalaia(Choctaw Men’s Responsibilities) • Hunting • Protecting the community • Playing Stickball • Interacting with other groups • Doing heaviest work • Serving as orators/historians

  14. Tofa Toksali(Warm-Season Activities) • Community • Disburse to family homesteads • Field-planting (beginning around equinox) • Collection of wild plants • Men/Boys • Small-game hunting • Fishing • Stickball • Women/Girls • Field-maintenance

  15. Chukka(Summer Houses)

  16. Osapa Hokchi(Planting a Field)

  17. Vpawaya(Edible Plants)

  18. Toffa Vpawaya ItahobliCollecting Summer Fruits Hammer 2005

  19. Hattak-vt Napossi Hoyo(Hunting Small Game)

  20. Nanokweli(Fishing)

  21. Isht Taboli(Stickball)

  22. Hvshtola Toksali(Cold-Season Activities) • Community • Harvest fields • Move into winter residence • Feasts • Men • Hunt large game • Women/Girls • Preserve and prepare food produce

  23. Anunka(Winter House)

  24. Onafapi Nan Illimpawaya Ahoyo(The Fall Harvest) Bushnell 1915 De Bry 1591

  25. Issi Hoyo(Deer Hunts)

  26. Ilhpak Atahli(Preparing Food)

  27. Chepulechi(Feasting)

  28. Binolhichi (Colonization) • Spanish, French, English, United States • Thousands of Choctaw died from disease and war • Land base reduced by 99.84% • Ecosystem destruction • Choctaw family and governmental structures altered • Tribe fragmented • Language, people, and traditional knowledge marginalized

  29. Tvnnvp (Warfare)

  30. Yakni Hota (The Taking of Land)

  31. Anowa Yaiya (Trail of Tears)

  32. Hobachit Ikbi (Assimilation)

  33. Lokaffit Isht Ia (Recovery) • A reassertion of sovereignty and self-determination • Development of Tribal social programs • Culture camps • Language classes • Tribal fairs • Revival of Choctaw Stomp Dance • Southeastern Native Seed Bank • Rehabilitation of Mississippi canebrakes • Recovery of Nvnih Waiya

  34. Mississippi Chahta(Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians)

  35. Okla(People) • Population = 10,000 • Remained in Mississippi through Removal

  36. Yakni(Land) • 8 Reservation Communities in east MS: 32.5 sq. mi • Tucker • Standing Pine • Conehatta • Crystal Ridge • Bogue Chitto • Pearl River • Bogue Homa • Red Water

  37. Jena Chahta(Jena Band of Choctaw Indians)

  38. Okla(People) • Population = 241 • Descents of Choctaw families that moved into Louisiana in the 1870s.

  39. Yakni(Land) • Reservation 62.53 acres in Central Louisiana

  40. Oklahumma Chahta Okla(Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

  41. Okla(People) • Population = 205,000+ • Descendants of Trail of Tears Survivors

  42. Yakni(Land)

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