Choctaw Days 2013: Social Dancing 2

In this second group of dances, the Choctaw Dancers perform the Four Step War Dance, the Raccoon Dance, and a social dance. Presley Byington explains the history and significance of each dance. Brad Joe's chanting is a key part of the dances, and his beadwork can be seen on several of the Choctaw Dancers' outfits.
Presley Byington is a flute maker from Idabel, Oklahoma and is adept in many
aspects of the Choctaw culture. Brad Joe is a Choctaw chanter, beadwork artist, and flutist.
Recorded in the National Museum of the American Indian Potomac Atrium on June 21, 2013.

[@atik1798]

Love and deep gratitude from Ireland for all that the Choctaw Nation did to help us.

[@katthefantastic]

We love you! Choctaw indian and Irish is in my blood, and very proud of it!💖

[@delfinegomez6895]

Beautiful and peaceful. Great grandmother was Choctaw, great grandfather was Irish ... getting to know my genealogy.

[@katthefantastic]

That's awesome! My poppa was Choctaw and my granny was Irish. It's a beautiful combination.

[@andykane439]

Love and peace from Ireland ❤

[@katthefantastic]

Love and peace from Oklahoma ❤

[@debbiecandler7709]

I am cherokee and chocktaw my grandmother walked on the trail of tears

[@danielinnicg2114]

God bless the choctaw ppl from us irish💚

[@rdefender2685]

God Bless You Choctaw from the Irish Americans.

[@godschildyes]

That Raccoon Dance was so stinkin cute!

[@TheQuietRumor]

A nakfi yvt Chahta hihlia. Mississippi Chahta chia. My brother is dancing in this video. He's Mississippia Chahta - and so is his cousin who is dancing as well. I'm not usually one to comment but folks are making snap judgements on a video with out knowing all the folks in it - once again. And honestly it doesn't even matter. These dances are being done the correct way - the dances vary from community to community. If folks know their history anyway, you'd know that we Oklahoma Choctaws relearned how to social dance down in Mississippi back in the 1970s anyway. Folks can debate back and forth who is more chahta than thou but it's whatever. I'm grateful to the chahta okla who stayed behind in MS and preserved our traditions despite the intense poverty and pressures from missionaries. I'm also thankful to those in oklahoma that took it upon themselves to spearhead the revitalization of our chahta culture and traditions and went out to MS to learn and bring it back. I'm also thankful to all those who continue to participate in our cultural ways and also help to continue revitalize our culture. The learning goes both ways - don't for get MBCI relearned how to make our traditional pottery from CNO. As long as folks continue to step up to the table to carry on and strengthen our traditions, that's what is important.

[@Aerialsteve10]

❤

[@humblewarrior7593]

Amen

[@cherietillman9279]

Ameñ

[@ambrawilliam1130]

@Brit Reed actually the other group was the one who left when MS descendents stayed behind and we resisted the removal. Oklahoma was the one who traveled the Trail of Tears along with the other groups. I noticed that Choctaw Nation members does not fully know the correct history of what actually occured as my cousin who lives in Oklahoma and a member of that tribe told the family what they were being told. The elder in the family had to correct her how it came about that they ended up there.

[@Nativwildchick2000]

Native of the Americas show peace best (as well; as any other culture), that doesn't exploit aggression, or war. ❤️ love the matter that everyone can be involved, loved the participation. Haha

[@montanaf.1578]

I'm Choctaw / creek/ Delaware. But I have Irish and Scottish in me too but I have more native blood in me! But there are roomers in one of my tribes that the reason I look like I do is for my safety!

[@asktheanswer424]

*loving kindness meditation for my tribal relatives from the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, it is good to know you, Shekyuno! may we have peace and prosperity forever connecting all spirits in freedom respect and love*

[@keevinhesue1796]

The beautiful lady in the pink..oh yeah love the show!!

[@asktheanswer424]

Loving kindness for the Ganges River in India

[@asktheanswer424]

I've found lasting happiness with the teachings of the Choctaw, this changed my life forever. I am inexpressibly greatful!

[@coriellealazay653]

Beautiful! ♥

[@angelee8958]

Beautiful

[@katthefantastic]

Proud Choctaw here!

[@BigSmiles214]

At the end looks like Chata Chief Batton dancing in the red shirt

[@asktheanswer424]

*gives gratitude for the Earth*

[@TheQuietRumor]

this is more of a reply to comment you made about Choctaw spiritual practices before this one - not sure where or who taught you all that but it's not correct at all. You may want to do more research on actual Choctaw culture/spiritual practices and Native american cultures and spiritual practices - weed, yoga, meditations, chakras etc are not apart of choctaw culture or traditions and never have been. Those things come out of Asia and Southeast Asia. Additionally, you may want to find a different source on our language. Anukfilli is to think, not meditate. There are many resources on our langue out there.

[@crystalpebsworth1118]

I might not look Choctaw, but I can sing like one. I've met Cheif Gary Batton at a basket weiving in San Francisco 2012. I want to move to Durant so bad. I want a job at the Choctaw casino too.

[@jackieelmore7490]

❤

[@michaelrunnels3923]

To get the real effect they should look up the Mississippi choctaws...they have kept traditions within their heritage. Modesty is their intention but when offended...they come to fight...just watch the real stickball games from the Mississippi choctaws and see what I mean. This video is cute....close to real tradition

[@RebelTvShka]

Michael Runnels So they bludgeon and maim each other? Because that would be "traditional". You can think you're more "traditional" (hell, you might be) than your western brothers, but at least show some love for us. We didn't have a choice on staying and are just trying to keep hold of our culture.

[@N8tiveBaller22]

***** Actually yall did have a choice to stay in Mississippi. That's why there are Mississippi Choctaws and Oklahoma Choctaws. The strong stayed, the weak left. We are 2 different tribes now in 2 different state. We might have the same tribal name but we are not the same today. Yall lost the tradition, we did not. And Nashoba is spelt wrong too. Another factor that makes us different. Good try though.

[@victoriaj2899]

this game of Okla Choctaw vs miss Choctaw and whose got more tradition is a joke.

[@Minime163]

I'm going to look it up now

[@mrzredbadger7848]

danced on my own...

[@koenosullivan7116]

these are times of peace though :)

[@godschildyes]

Yes! 🙏💖

[@josiethebabeify]

I see the princess she looks beautiful

[@asktheanswer424]

To make the world nonviolent, our best hope is minds that decondition the substance, and promote inner peace and realization. In 1960, a small group of psychologists, centered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performed research that brought them to the conclusion that the key to healthy organic biological healing (in any and all forms) was psychological

[@cheiftain732]

☘🦅❤

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

Aiokpanchi!!!

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

kana hila - peace dance or hanta hila - peace dance

[@asktheanswer424]

inukhaklo - charity

[@asktheanswer424]

anukfilli - meditation

[@anythingeverything2659]

5$ tax stamp special more than anything.

[@cow4652]

Choctaw beka nasholichi falam isht ikhana, hapi yohmi imma oka imam oke inla

[@cow4652]

falamichi

[@asktheanswer424]

Choctaw aloha (peace and love to Hawaii rastafari)

[@nakaylaanderson3210]

Sjsjensky

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

peace loving egalitarian non hierarchical matriarchal culture encouraging dreaming the world into creation and writing ones own story, misunderstood by settlers, but in the end, finding a common point of understanding, through the magical beings of the earth, whom we share a common ancestor, we are liberated from the old fashion cowboy/indian paradigm and awaken to a more complex friendship and mutual existence where its not about genetics but about spirit and doing good deeds for all beings

[@koenosullivan7116]

*Shaman Removing Trances*

[@angle8676]

Were the so called black chaotaw at?

[@theokierebel4398]

Joaquin Linares Halito! There was the Choctaw Freedmen, but the truth is that most of them don't claim Choctaw as their race. There was not as many of them as there was native Choctaw folks, so you don't see them represented at functions such as this. Not that they wouldn't be welcome. What is fascinating about the Choctaw culture is how little race is a part of it. We take pride in our nation, but a Choctaw person of color, be it of black skinned or red, is no better or worse than a Choctaw person of whiter skin. I am sure the Choctaw Freedmen who are around and claim their ancestral heritage are representing themselves in some facet, just not every facet of Choctaw culture. I am also very sure that the tribe has absolutely no problem with them being involved if they chose to be.

[@chim7741]

@@theokierebel4398 I think the US government wrote us out of history, their were Freeman and freedman, so many documents were destroyed it's funny because the years blacks need to prove who we are magically caught on fire water damage, but everything else made it in the same room as the fire

[@chim7741]

@@theokierebel4398 also we been trying to figure how to join , one part of the family has been hiding the truth because it benefits and the would have to share, it doesn't help that we have all this information pictures of great great grandfather in full uniform from Mississippi

[@SmashinAdams]

@@theokierebel4398 - A lie - There's a LOT of colorism/racism in the so-called 'bands' in OK and MS. EVERY real Chahta has Chusite-Moundbuilder blood AND WE KNOW IT. So not all Indigenous POC got their hue from the enslaved Moors that some of our ancestry held. These avatar-hiders sure know to talk that 'freedman' slave talk in a safe place. PS - "black" and "red" are colors, not races. Tikba ihiya.

[@delfinegomez6895]

Interesting comments, gives reason/purpose for further Choctaw research. It's important to learn all aspects of one's culture.

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

entheogens

[@asktheanswer424]

fairy tales around the camp fire, never walk in a huge parade, stay independent join together by chaos, choctaw anarchy, peace and love, AHIMSA martin luther king jr

[@asktheanswer424]

choctaw peace meditation, marijuana is a sacred plant, let her spirit heal you and show you the wisdom, don't worry, nothing will be corrupted, it all illusions of the bad which could have happened, this is good yoga, native American yoga, meditate on your presidential chakra, live a righteous live, according to the Yamas (moral guidelines) respect the animals, the river, trees and sky, never fall into a program though, with luck youll make it, choctaw/chickasaw we are the irish of america

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

hippy dance

[@earthwaterairspiritfireleb5482]

Choctaw buddha

[@1919765]

Them white people is not Choctaw indian, Choctaw Indian is brown and black.

[@montanaf.1578]

Not every one because I'm Choctaw / creek/Delaware / Irish / Scottish but I have more Indian blood in me

[@montanaf.1578]

+Montana Forguson and I'm white

[@randalljohnson1009]

your a moron im half Choctaw half Irish and Have a red beard on brown hair.. freckles all over MORON!!

[@MichaelCasey1988]

We wuz Chiefs and shieet

[@11B30Inf]

You have some Choctaws that are mix blood kid. My Grandmother was half Choctaw and my Grandfather was 1/4 Cherokee.

[@jazzpiru2151]

Get them out those ridiculous clothes

[@mariastewart9820]

RIDICULOUS ?? That's our heritage !

[@jazzpiru2151]

@@mariastewart9820 I'm choctaw. We don't dress like that bitch. Kitty

[@stormy-le6pb]

Choctaw women went topless N the hot summer time but put a buckskin top on N fall & winter. Whites showed them the cloth & it was easier 2 sew than buckskin, so Choctaw switched 2 cloth & put their own decoration on it. Choctaw women don't want 2 go topless anymore.

[@THEFINANCEGORILLA]

5 dollar indians

[@indiee4971]

Something not right. The real Indians aren’t Indians anymore. These are Europeans not Indians.

[@noahinson]

We live in two different worlds. Our traditions are alive, but just because things are new or we're adapting doesn't mean we're lost.

[@jazzpiru2151]

This is blasphemy

[@crystalpebsworth1118]

I might not look Choctaw, but I can sing like one. I've met Cheif Gary Batton at a basket weiving in San Francisco 2012. I want to move to Durant so bad. I want a job at the Choctaw casino too.

[@stormy-le6pb]

I can see traces of the Choctaw phenotype N UR face