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Podcast: Native ChocTalk
Episode: S7, E6, Part 3: Our Choctaw Hymns & Ancestral Stories with Paula Carney & Cheryl Weeden, Choctaw
Description: Part 3
It is said that as our ancestors walked the hundreds of miles on the Trail of Tears from their homelands to Indian Territory during The Removal, that singing could be heard echoing through the trees. Those near enough to hear those melodious sounds may have assumed a nearby church service was taking place.Â
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What they probably didn’t know at the time was that those singers, young and old, feeble and strong, were forced to walk in frigid weather, and some would succumb to the cold or illness, or were killed by sold...