Their mother mound is Nanih Waiya, a great earthwork platform mound located in central-east Mississippi. The Choctaw were first noted by Europeans in French written records of 1675. Today, Choctaw people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Protestant, Roman Catholic, traditional beliefsĬhickasaw, Muscogee, Natichez, Alabama, Koasati, and Seminole Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou Alfred Boisseau – 1847
