im ashamed i do not know the language i should it makes me sad that i do not know much about my ancestry ;/ my entire fathers side is Choctaw but all my family is in Mississippi , i need my roots back im proud to be even part Choctaw
Ikr blessed to be apart of the culture and I’m just starting to learn more about my own culture wow I wish I knew how to speak Choctaw I’m so interested to embrace my culture
My great great grandfather spoke French, Spanish, Choctaw and Atakapa. He was a white Cajun but he was married to an Atakapa woman in Louisiana. It's a shame their children were made to be ashamed of themselves by society but it's beautiful to see this language still alive in this part of the world
My family moved from Mississippi and I was told we were Choctaw but the only person who new the language was my great grandfather. He was. A hard man and became estranged with my grandpa (his sixth child) so I know so little. This was nice to watch.
Thank you for posting this video. I wish I could learn the language. My great gram passed before I could really learn. Grateful to God that the traditions still live!
Yokoke! This is beautiful. Chahta sia. Sv hohchifo yvt Nita Lusa. My people are from the Tangipahoa region. We are not apart of the Band. We are the redbones, maroon, mainly referred to as Black NnNz.
How about that my mothers lineage is the same just as you spelled it we would be what's called afro Mexican Olmecs Aztec people from the Texas area. Information has been spreading like wildfire tell me more of what you know since you've commented 7yrs ago
My grandmother, Mama June Vanderson, was from Natchez, MS and she was half Choctaw. My great grandmother, Mama Willie, was full-blooded Choctaw and married an African-American man. My mother, Doris, is Creole. A lot of the old herbal remedies were passed down to my mom and I still remember and use them often. This was a fascinating video to watch. I’ve never really been in touch with my Native side of the family, only through stories that my grandmother used to share with me. Thanks for the upload.
I watched the video with great interest. These are the first Choctaws I have seen on film, other than the young man, an Arkansas Choctaw, who so eloquently testified before the US Congress regarding the scam of Jack Abramoff. My great great grandmother was a full blooded Choctaw. Her portrait hangs on my parent's bedroom wall. I'm so happy to know that the language remains alive and that it can be studied online.
John Nokosi if one drop of Black blood makes a person Black regardless of his or her skin complexion, then his 1/4 Native American blood is equally relevant. My brother was told all he needed was 1/4 Native American to receive free tuition and he got it. So, why don't you stop being a gene bully just because someone embraces his DNA. Regardless of how little it is, it still shows up in his DNA which passes to his progeny. Perhaps you should retake Biology or better yet, take a college level Biology class and learn something before you attack someone.
John Nokosi Then he ought to have babies with a Choctaw if he want's to bring the blood quantum up from 1/4. As a 1/4 Choctaw he is still considered a Choctaw. Its when his children's blood quantum falls below 1/4 and is 1/8. They will be dis-enrolled as a Choctaw then, and they will have to live as a White man or a Black man which ever they are, but his children can always have babies with Choctaws and bring his blood quantum back up in the tribe. Thats how its done.
@@bluebird9749 not true at all. I'm on the rolls as 1/32 and received assistance when I needed it. My children are 1/64 and get little awards for good grades. I can vote, we get the bishnik, and our yearly christmas ornament. We work to keep the heritage and memory alive. I've had family members of same percentage go to reservation to teach and practice medicine.
@@AbbyStrongNPC Are you Oklahoma Choctaw? Did the Choctaw open their rolls so they allow you're family to have such a small amount of Choctaw? I heard that they did that, but wasn't for sure. I know the Cherokee opened their rolls and I think the Chickasaws were talking about doing the same thing. That means that as long as you can trace anyone on your family genealogy chart (no matter how far back) to a full blood Indian, then you can be enrolled. If thats the case i guess it don't matter in some tribes if the people marry outside the tribe. that means if the tribe continues to marry outside the tribe, they will eventually be more White or Black with hardly any native American blood in them. so whats the use of being a Indian tribe then, after that? Tribal members will all be just 1 to 3% Native American. Oh well.
My great grandmother was 90% Choctaw ever since I learned about my grandmommy I was so intrigued & wanted to learn more makes me feel closer to her I have a copy of her original certificate I want to frame it ! This is so beautiful..... I want to be able to learn the language
Blessings to the world ! I was told I'm more related to this group of Indigenous AMERICAN people. I don't speak Choctaw. Our family has been displaced for centuries. We live in the Caribbean now. Born in America. Raised elsewhere. Sending blessings to a STRONG people.
I'm Choctaw heritage and would like to learn more. One thing I want to get is a regalia to honor my ancestors. My mother's 3rd great grandfather was Choctaw. She and I attended the Choctaw Fair a long time ago in Philadelphia Ms. Very interesting time and I want to come again. Thank you for the video.
Yes, my native brothers and sisters, May we stop looking upon the Europeans to mate with and find a native spouse so that our people do not vanish from the face of this earth!
I’m told from my spirit guides my gifts are coming from a Chocktaw Indian heritage. This is what has brought me here. I’m learning about these beautiful people and the culture. Trying to find the path my ancestors have walked to get here to me. 🥰
It's a beautiful thing to embrace English culture so you can function in America. But it is even more beautiful when you can embrace who you really are thru language, arts, dance, etc... Always be true to you....
my mother is an old yogi, she is very healthy, and kind, sometimes its hard to understand, she doesnt really talk much about the yoga, she just does it, sometimes she appears as a girl, a middle aged woman or an old woman.. she spends most of her time helping people, she is partly Chickasaw and Choctaw
It's nice to see so much of the culture has survived. Generally when we think of Native Americans we think genocide and them being wiped off the face of the earth. It's also great that they still have their language I'm 34 and only now becoming competent in my own language only 1-2% of the country speaks it as a first language.
I am African and Choctaw and I am so happy to be learning about both sides of my culture. I am in the process of creating an altar for my ancestors, so if anyone has any suggestions on things I can add to bring elements from the Choctaw Nation, feel free to reply! For now I am adding corn, as I know it was one of their main crops.
as an Irishman any Choctaw member is welcome in my home, If you would ever move here to Ireland you would be most welcome, so much of our cultures are so similar!
My Grandmother was half Choctaw and rarely talk about it. Sad during that time in the 1950s and 60s that you admit being even part Choctaw you were called "half breed". I wish my Grandmother would have told us more about her Choctaw mother and what she was like. Now sadly we kids will never know. One thing my Grandmother did was give my sister a middle Choctaw name of Segina.
Nice video.....a lot of people look like people from my own tribe. I am Alabama-Coushatta. Keep posting videos like this. Gotta keep native pride alive...
Same here, the beautiful faces of the ladies, the faces of the men, the children, they look like my people, south of the border(rio grande)! Jari Naraski from K'erhitaru(Querétaro, Mexico) Jai!! :)
I'm from Mississippi. One of my maternal great grandmothers was full blooded Chocktaw. When she was alive (she lived to be 103) we could go down to Philadelphia, MS every year to the Choctaw festival. I remember how I felt so at home among my Choctaw brothers and sisters. My mouth waters even today remembering the fried bread and hominy. When Mama Wood died we stopped going to the festival. It makes me sad to think that I've lost touch with this noble and proud branch of my family tree.
@redmachine97 I'm african american and have choctaw heritage on both my parents' side of the family. (3rd great grandmother- dad's side and 2nd great grandmother or grandfather- mother's side) I would like to know more about choctaw culture and way of life and anymore suggestions on how to research my indian family tree. If you have any suggestions, please be sure to let me know. Thank you.
Glad UR a proud Chatah but don't lie about them. Chatah R proud they descend from Paleo Mongoloid Asians & no! they never were black ppl. Chatah that aren't mixed with white or black, look like brown Asians with small eyes, shovel shape incisor teeth with straight hair & have a total different phenotype from whites & blacks. Choctaw R not African, black nor Negroe.
my great grandma was choctaw and its blowing my mind. i wish i could be taught the language :( im multi racial (dad is creole) put people just look at me and see a black girl
@@IslenoGutierrez it's not but it just lets you know my dad is mixed of black, white (french) descent And if an American is talking about it that means from Louisiana. Just like when someone says they're Puerto Rican then you can infer that they are of African, native and white(Spaniard) descent. Normally when I talk about the language I have to specify Louisiana Creole because I know the Haitians speak a different Creole.
Avianna Reign Bruh, I’m from New Orleans, La, believe me when I tell you saying that you are Créole does not suggest you are mixed race...there are white Creoles as well as unmixed black Creoles...creole in Louisiana just means you descend from the colonial population of Louisiana, and they used to use it to mean born in Louisiana, regardless of race. There is faux pas fake definition of creole floating around out there that it’s some black/French mixed race, but that’s only one type called creole of color. Why of color? Because there are Creoles not of color such as white Creoles. White Creoles are those such as French Creoles (whites of predominantly Louisiana colonial French descent) or Spanish Creoles (whites of predominantly Louisiana Spanish colonial descent) etc. maybe you didn’t know, but you’re unknowingly spreading that ignorant faux pas made up definition of the late 20th century...
@@IslenoGutierrez That is what my father his parents and their parents are before them consider themselves because they are of mixed ancestry to my knowledge if you Google Creole it is defined as those of mixed of black and European ancestry primarily French. Specifically when you referring to Louisiana Creole. This is not something I looked up this is my family. I'm not saying you are wrong hun there are different definitions for that word. In the context of the way I am using it my father is of French(Acadian) and african descent, this is coming straight from my father and my great-great-grandmother.
Irish People have a great affinity with the Choctaw Nation, having sent money during my people's time of, 'The Great Hunger' - something we have never forgotten. Thank you. You did this great honourable kindness even when you were suffering at the hands of your own oppressors following The Trail Of Tears ....
What a beautiful and proud people, we irish owe them a lot. Their stick ball game is very like our hurling and just as old..i wonder if there could be even more n common between us...i would hope so...we irish wish you much love and respect
My maternal grandmother was Choctaw my Grandfather Cherokee. I wish I knew so much more. My mother had all she needed to apply for her role number before she passed in 2013.
Very cool. My dad's side is a Scottish Choctaw mix (Mississippi band). They were proud of it. My dad sadly is ashamed of it. Used to live near Buckatunna creek as a little girl and loved exploring that area. Used to have some crazy dreams there too. I'm snow white like my moms Russian side, but my sister is so dark, with black brown eyes, that people assume she is a Mexican. lol Genes are a funny thing. Thanks for the Video, love learning more about the culture.
I'm the product of a Scottish Choctaw mix (Mississippi band) too, but on my mother's side. And my father's family are Scottish. My Choctaw grandparents, and my parents, are from Northeast Mississippi, the Iuka/Tishomingo area.
My grandfather is pure Choctaw and he was also ashamed to be Choctaw for a very long time from the stories I've heard. But the rest of my family is German and that's what I've learned to speak. I would love to learn Choctaw though.
They say you look like a Mexican and Mexicans are a mixture or european Spaniards indigenous Indians that's why they say you look Mexican because a Mexican is nothing but that cross mixture of the two and they call them Mexicans because of the Spanish blood and the only different with your is Irish and theres Spanish and both are Europeans mixed with indigenous!
I have never met my great-grandmother Foster, nor do I even know her first name, but my grandmother, mother and uncle have all told me that she was full Choctaw. She married an Arkansas Irishman surnamed Foster. I suppose that makes me 1/8th Choctaw, as well as part Irish, and French and German on my father's side. I was never taught anything about the Choctaw culture, but my grandmother taught me a little about identifying wild edible and medicinal plants, which she probably learned from her mother. I stumbled upon this video while trying to research a little about my Choctaw heritage. Keep up the good work and God bless.
wow, i saw my whole past life i talked to god i see my spirit i know how to heal... this is the liberation of all consciousness its all about karma, i do not support being continuously being hung up about dna and the civil war times, i support being in the present movement if you feel spiritually a part of the choctaw tribe, work with us, please for good, share your new stories,your insight, your thoughts and love directed to this present moment
you cannot be "spiritually a part of a tribe." a tribe can adopt you, but stop trying to be a pretendian. it's about community acceptance and being apart of your people.
My grandmother on my father's side was Choctaw. A common law marriage for share croppers was never recorded so not documentation exists. My father had profound features from his Choctaw heritage. I would love to learn the language...
@@stormy-le6pb it's not just black.. check urself.. you even admitted you are.more than one shade just as WE are. You weren't the only ones here either. But you mixed with SO many other races. My father was more than half. He was.born into the Nation. His mother was full-blood, his father half. She spoke the language, as did he, and we pass it down. I show my daughter, ALL of who she is, and I am proud. I teach my children the TRUTH. Many Nation exclude us, but I still teach the truth. My mother is also Creole which many know Louisiana Creole are of Native blood. Regardless of who you are, keep your traditions, teach your children. By the way "negroid"?? Really? LOL
@Shawn Howard Choctaws are not Negroid, they are dark yes, but their DNA does not say Negroid. It says Mongoloid. I know you are a proud African American, but African are Negroid and Choctaw are not African and are not Negroid. You need to take a lesson in genetics.. Choctaw (Mongoloid) and African American (Negroid) can have babies with each other, but then they become mixed raced, where the child is half Sub Saharan African Negroid and half Choctaw Mongoloid. Choctaws are a totally different race from African Americans, the two are totally different races of people. Mongoloid and Negroid and then you have the Caucasoid. Hope I cleared it up for you.
@@dogisbluer8553 Blacks are so infatuated with White women too, so the more White women Blacks have children with, the more Blacks here, are turning into White people. No longer will Blacks be, copper color they will be pink Blacks. Now I know you just can't refrain yourself, here comes the profanity. The truth always makes Blacks hopping mad, you just can't help getting mad at the truth. When all that Blacks have to do is be content with your own history instead of trying to change your history into a big lie, you wouldn't have to get hopping mad like this. After 20 years of lies coming from Blacks, Blacks haven't made one little budge with your lies.
They were mound builders and lived in today's USA for at least 20,000 years, long before Mayans. Now if you tell me the Navajos are from Mayan I MIGHT believe you
While my area is more where the Creek tribes would have been, I'm hoping the techniques for the area have be preserved somewhere as I would like to know how they would have survived on the move. I've found many survival techniques that undoubtedly have their roots somewhere in native american culture (I believe that bow-drill fire making is Seminole), but I want to know specifically what for which people's. I'm too many generations removed from my heritage (Arapaho) but I want to learn something
Im a transgendered choctaw internet hippie (i am wanti), i support legal cannabis, animal rights, and everyone planting 10 trees or more a year.. Love!
Loving kindness, we intend to allow you to use lycaeum on Shabbat, considered dreaming, and itll have a message of enjoying the fruits of life but not exploiting them or wasting them. Happy thanksgiving - choctaw
@redmachine97 She did have really dark black hair, but she kept it short like the 1940's style hair do. But I can tell you this, that lady never had a frowned look on her face ever!!! She was always smiling and chuckling and gave me the sweetest kisses on my "chubby cheeks" as she would call them. Even my girlfriends over the years would say, "You must like it when I kiss you on the cheek!?" I would say yes, I do..(thinking about my grandma Nellie)
you can talk to the plants and the animals, they tell you they are just joking, there is no war, this is great incredible peace, a great time to be alive, all the world thrives, spirits are growing :) smoke the peace pipe, medicine cannabis spirit brings us back to independent meditation, in meditation, we offering compassion to life, we create art, we sit in meditation, plant seeds, we hug trees, we defy expectations, we aren't where you expect us to be, we are native American, we teach karma
My heart breaks when I know what happened to so many tribes in this country. This was your land and it was stolen from you and made slaves of you just to survive. God bless you and watch over you.
There is some Choctaw on my mother's side of the family, but we make no claims of belonging to the tribe because we have no real documentation of ancestry.
You don't need documentation of ancestry, that is a just a paper game so they can label you in their system. My entire family is chotctaw and my grandmother has is on her Birth Certificate, they told her she is two dark lol and my grandfather is the same way...Basically that tribe shit as of now will be a government assistance/helping hand to the fake (Mexican/Asian) looking Indians
Uprated and loving this upload very much! Ya know, while the Choctaw Nation is distinct, and different from say the Raramuri Nation(sierra madre occidental in nw mexico)or the Ñañu Nation, of Querétaro, Guanajuato, Hidalgo and parts of Mexico State, the women have the same taste and love for colorful dresses, and the boys playing that ballgame, barefoot, just like the Triqui boys from Oaxaca State, i believe the San Antonio Spurs NBA team and the triquis playing basketball in their bare feet! LOL;....Luvin' this NATIVE PRIDE, Thumbs up and Jari Naraski(greetings)from K'erhitaru! :)
a hatukchaya (great spirit who teaches healing) is with us in this way to teach us, this is not really scientific genealogy its about the spirit world connections between all life, ironically Choctaw medicine is more about ending racism and divisions between peoples, and overcoming mistranslations, initial misunderstandings which make it difficult to realize we are more similar than different, most conflicts are caused by misunderstanding than actual ill will
Your not African American you were labeled that to hide the fact that we're the original first nation's people to steer you away from your real culture this is our true heritage my mother told me all about her heritage and we're Chahta from the Texas area. We're tired of the lies the truth is here we know who we are.
Wow a story passed down from my dad ,,my grandmother from Miss.met with Indian affairs man in Arkansas I guess around the 1930s someone shot him and burned all the papers grandmother Drusie had signed,,she is always on my mind lately, she had mom cut all of her hair above her shoulders and passed that night I remember it was so long below her waist,,I was small when she lived but she made quite the impression, she would catch you messing up a hook you with her cane lol,,,,mom said they had a fight before she and dad married, grandmother didn't like her till they fought, then they were peas in a pod,,I believe her traditions were true in her heart ,what ever she was I'm proud to be a part of.
