Jan. 21—Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton said a grant received from a federal agency will help keep the Choctaw Language alive. "I've always said its mission critical. If we lose our language, we fail ...

(KTEN) — The number of fluent Native American language speakers is declining. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says approximately ...

The Alabama Choctaw lived in poverty and isolation until the ... you’re not going to keep records like that. Also, the Indians didn’t have a written language, so they didn’t keep any written records.

We lost our language. We lost our history ... Since then, tribes nationwide, including the Choctaw Nation, have made enormous strides in running their judicial systems. "That's the ability ...

about 300 African Americans and 30 Seminole and Choctaw Indians. News of "Negro Fort" (as it came to be called) attracted as many as 800 black fugitives who settled in the surrounding area.

The Choctaw have lived in modern-day Mississippi and Alabama far longer than documented history can tell. One of their origin myths tells of how the nation traveled for many years from a place far in ...

The Choctaw Nation headquarters is in Durant ... is when we went to boarding schools. We lost our language. We lost our history, our culture," Batton said. Tens of thousands of Native American ...