![]() ![]() ![]() These people are the only nation from whom I could learn any idea of a traditional account of a first origin and that is their coming out of a hole in the ground, which they shew between their nation and the Chickasaws they tell us also that their neighbors were surprised at seeing a people rise at once out of the earth. ![]() Bernard Romans' 1771 account ( Natural History of East and West Florida. ![]() Contemporary Choctaw are of two distinct groups, the tribe (in Mississippi) and the nation (in Oklahoma), with additional bands settled in Alabama and Louisiana.Īntoine du Pratz, in his Historie de La Louisiane (Paris, 1758) recounted that "when I asked them from whence the Chat-kas came, to express the suddenness of their appearance they replied that they had come out from under the earth." Despite an authorial assumption that this story was intended to "express the suddenness of their appearance" and not a literal creation story, this is perhaps the first European writing to contain the seed of the story. Choctaw also participated in World War I and World War II as code talkers. Choctaw are remembered for their generosity in providing humanitarian relief during the Irish Potato Famine decades before the Red Cross was created. ![]()
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