After years of isolation and poverty, Alabama’s MOWA Choctaw tribe is reclaiming its roots—with the help of UAB alumna Jacqueline Matte and UAB anthropologist Loretta Cormier. Thirty years ago, UAB ...
This week, in Tuskahoma, on the capitol grounds of the Choctaw Nation, another tribute to this extraordinary act of kindness was unveiled: a large Celtic knot, a traditional symbol for the unity ...
The tribe has vastly improved its quality of education, with its Calcedeaver Elementary School ranking third of the 778 schools in the State of Alabama’s Reading Initiative in 2005. The last fluent ...