Description: A valuable collection of stories that honor the customs and traditions of everyday life in Choctaw communities
Brief description: Tom Mould is professor of anthropology and folklore at Butler University. He is author of Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future; Choctaw Tales; Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition; and Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America, which won the Brian McConnell Book Award and the Chicago Folklore Prize.
Review Quotes: Choctaw Traditions is a watermark in Choctaw knowledge. Providing a compelling mix of first-person teaching with contextualization and analysis, this is an outstanding addition, wholly unique, to the fine body of work on Mississippi Choctaw life that outsiders and insiders have built for more than a century.--James Taylor Carson, author of Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal