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Podcast: Native ChocTalk
Episode: S10, Ep 1, Pt 2: Weaving Stories, Weaving Bloodlines: With Choctaws, Cheryl Stone Pitchford & Jonathan Watson
Description: “Indian Makes An Attempt to Kill.”
That was the newspaper headline about my great-great uncle, Cicero - a story I’ve shared many times. But on one retelling, something unexpected happened. The story didn’t just revisit the past - it opened the door to an entirely new world of family connections I never knew existed.
In Part 2, we weave together Cicero’s story with my own and how, somehow, his history guided me straight to my cousin, Cheryl Stone Pitchford, and a whole new branch of our family tree.
Recorded 2 years ago, in this seri...