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 ...

In 1847, the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma made a donation of $ ... of State Thomas Byrne said the memorial would be a "permanent symbol of the enduring and meaningful friendship between our two ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, and long before Europeans came to America, the Choctaw Nation was a tribe of farmers that lived in what is now the Southeastern United States, specifically in the ...