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Podcast: Native ChocTalk
Episode: S9, E7, Pt 1: Service with a Choctaw Heart: Veteran & Assistant Chief, Jack Austin, Jr
Description: Veterans Day holds a special place in this episode, I visited with Choctaw Nation’s Assistant Chief Jack Austin Jr., a man whose life has been shaped by service, family legacy, and an unwavering devotion to the Choctaw people.
From his small-town Oklahoma upbringing in Talihina, where the soda fountain was a gathering place, and family values were taught in everyday moments, Jack shares what it was like to be raised by his father, the late Jack Austin Sr., and guided by a grandfather who led not through speeches, but through steady action.
Jack opens hi...