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The story of the Choctaws as told through the lives of two men who took different paths to leadership; Taboca and Franchimastabe.

About the Author

Greg O'Brien is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Reviews

Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society's 2003 McLemore Prize "O'Brien's work is solid and the research impeccable." The Chronicles of Oklahoma "A significant step forward, one of a small number of recent southeastern Indian histories that begin by taking native cultures seriously and viewing Choctaw beliefs and understandings of the world as crucial to the ways in which native people acted and reacted as historical actors... O'Brien is to be commended for attempting this difficult and necessary work." Jason Baird Jackson, The Alabama Review