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The Choctaw Tribe

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The Choctaw village is located in the southeastern of the United States aka modern day Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana. They were forced to move to Oklahoma because US government has set “Indian territory” for the Indians to move to though few didn 't want to leave their home. Beside that fact about their village, they had a very stable village. The men hunted and went to war while the women farmed but mostly took care of the children and cook. Both genders did things to help their village so you couldn 't say the men did all the work while women did nothing. As the women cook it included Banaha Indian Bread, Blue Grape Dumplings, Fresh Pork&Corn, and many more. As the parents work, the children did what normal kids do. They
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