Mississippi Choctaw dictionary project helps tribe preserve language
Mihaela Chircă
The United States government removed Jason Lewis’ ancestors from Choctaw tribal land twice. The family had left Mississippi more than 200 years ago, when the federal government forced most of the Choctaw Nation to relocate to Oklahoma after pressuring tribal leaders to sign the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in a clearing in Mashulaville on Sept. 27, 1830. Chief Pushamataha had spent years in negotiations with the government for compensation for the theft of Choctaw land. But when the chief
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