Choctaw Festival Day 1 - Social Dances 1

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma celebrates its tribal history and heritage with two days of dance, song, storytelling, and artist demonstrations. In this segment, Choctaw dancers perform several social dances, including the Jump Dance, the 4-step War Dance, the Mosquito Dance, the Stealing Partners Dance, the Snake Dance, and the Racoon Dance. Members of the audience join in on the Stealing Partners Dance and the Snake Dance. Assistant Chief Jack Austin, Jr. introduces each dance and Joe Brad performs the role of chanter. This the first of two performances of Choctaw dances for the first day of the festival.
This program was webcast and recorded in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 24, 2014.

[@melissamartinez2833]

Proud to be an American Choctaw Indian

[@LowakOotitok]

Love seeing this!!!

[@robynvaughan1140]

My husband is Ok Choctaw and he would love to learn the dances

[@marialuisaquinones9760]

Que hermoso !! 😍

[@Jonathan-sf6ej]

Really great chants. Thanks for sharing.

[@crystalpebsworth1766]

NUK A TA CHA PEBSWORTH (Chi hillio li) MY GREAT GREAT GRANDMA yakoke ma!!!! HENRY PEBSWORTH from England........I LOVE LOVE LOVE u both!!!

[@senpai704]

Ur white

[@jellygirl3059]

So they can speak Choctaw too I'm a Choctaw too I love the songs and I love it when the boys shout

[@alexmason2659]

@@senpai704 I'm half white half Native my white ancestors came from Scotland and Wales but I still speak my tribal languages

[@crystalb12111]

All the tribes are not gathered yet.

[@antisocialshelley2326]

Yakoke.❤

[@shortssss447]

Proud chocktaw!✊️

[@alejandrocarrascoflores5570]

Soy Çoktawa...

[@nhiocazafargupta6560]

Please turn your volume up please

[@frenchpizza9725]

I love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love

[@matthewlivermanne4441]

Mosquito Dance most definitely a lot of mosquitoes anywhere Choctaws lived

[@jellygirl3059]

Hey ik this is weird but I am a Choctaw and I do my Choctaw tribe dances

[@jellygirl3059]

I do mosquito dance and wedding dance

[@ASHRN-gx3cx]

where can I find out how much Choctaw blood I have in me I'm in between 13 and 24% ?and I know some of the Choctaw tounge.

[@natlock7592]

23 AND ME google native specific DNA Tests. Good luck

[@emitabaulenu]

Chahta anumpa ish anompoli h_o_?

[@nathanielsteve2932]

ASH3R0N 6503 ....chata chi yahma ish ahnaopli hilitok...yakoki

[@larebow1]

@@emitabaulenu ishke li.

[@jacob9080]

Please contact the tribe to find out and they will trace to see if you have an ancestor enrolled on the Dawes roll ( it can’t be found out through blood or an ancestor website)

[@jellygirl3059]

I love this atleast I live in Bok chito

[@brendagoodjohn2017]

My great grandma Ida Beard was part Choctaw

[@jellygirl3059]

Hey good for you

[@jellygirl3059]

And I am a kid and ik how to speak Choctaw and I am not lying and this is for real

[@jellygirl3059]

And I did Choctaw dances

[@jellygirl3059]

And it was fun

[@alexmason2659]

@@jellygirl3059 good for you I'm half Native American half white my tribes are the BlackFeet Lakota Cherokee and Choctaw

[@nakaylaanderson3210]

Dosys s

[@tabblu6289]

Sad..... not much Choctaw Blood left.

[@jacob9080]

We are running out of full bloods but we are the 3rd biggest tribe in the us

[@shredderboi32]

@@jacob9080 plenty of full bloods like myself in Mississippi. Just saying.

[@matthewlivermanne4441]

Very beautiful

[@senpai704]

@@shredderboi32 for real 😭😭these r white people

[@shredderboi32]

@@senpai704 yes!

[@ArbitraryLifestyle]

This feels SO WHITE.

[@senpai704]

Really is

[@jellygirl3059]

Hell yea