Editing Choctaw mythology (section)

==Choctaw migration==

The Choctaw tell the following creation story of their coming to this land, and how [[Nanih Waiya]] Mound, built of earthwork by ancestors, came to be.

Two brothers, [[Choctaw|Chata]] and [[Chickasaw|Chicksah]]

After travelling for a mind-bogglingly long time, they finally came to a place where the pole stood upright. In this place, they laid to rest the bones of their ancestors, which they had carried in buffalo sacks from the original land in the west.

The earthwork [[Mound#North American archaeology|mound]] developed from that great burial. After the burial, the brothers discovered that the land could not support all the people. Chicksah took half the people and departed to the North, where they eventually emerged as the historic [[Chickasaw]] tribe.

Chata and the others remained near the mound, which became known as Nanih Waiya (The mound of all creation), and became known as the [[Choctaw tribe]].<ref>Taken from [http://www.indianlegend.com/choctaw/choctaw_001.htm Choctaw Creation Myth], Indian Legend website {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130126045548/http://www.indianlegend.com/choctaw/choctaw_001.htm |date=26 January 2013 }} where it is listed as being in the public domain</ref>