Some folks might not refer to Whatley as a “ghost town” because a few residents still live in homes along the community’s narrow main thoroughfare. But the business section of the once-incorporated ...

the Choctaw were the first to walk the Trail of Tears out to Oklahoma. But a few thousand remained behind, hiding in the swamps and pine barrens of the Alabama-Tombigbee watershed. They were ...

The Choctaw were one of the largest tribes belonging to the southern Muskhogean branch. Historically, nearly all the Choctaw towns were in the southeastern part of Mississippi, though they also ...