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American History Hit · The Trail of Tears | The Frontier · 30 Mar 2026 podcast

And so as we started absorbing in all of these Choctaw-speaking communities, we were able to rebuild communities

rebuild our life ways, rebuild our culture.

But this is what created our three districts.

You have the people that are living there.

You have people moving in from the West and people moving in from the Southwest.

And it created these three different cultural regions.

What year are we talking about here?

It's hard to tell.

A lot of this is happening between the 1680s all the way up into the late 1700s.

I see.

Okay.

And so-

There's this process of just absorbing these communities in.

And this is why we became the largest tribe in the southeast.

I see.

Interesting.

So, yeah, in 1699, the French first come ashore in the Gulf Coast along Choctaw territory.

And about a year later, in 1700, they make a formal alliance with the Choctaw people.

And this is what started our 73-year relationship with the French.

I see.

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