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Personal Narrative-The Chickasaw People

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“Everyone, please calm down.” His words could not be heard over the loud voices of the Chickasaw people. He put his index finger and his thumb together, put them in his mouth, all of a sudden there was a high pitch whistling sound. Everyone covered their ears. When the whistling finally stopped no sound could be heard from the Chickasaw people. “You all signed the treaty, this is where you will live from now on whether you like it or not!” He yelled at the group, “Now find an empty house and move your stuff in!” The Chickasaw crowd quickly dispersed as they found empty houses and moved in. My uncle, Lushanya, Henry, and I walked to the other side of the village. As we walked, the Choctaw people stared at us as we passed, but, they weren't …show more content…

Now we were living next to them! Not good. There was probably going to be more fights than ever now that we live next to them. But, maybe it will all turn out fine. Boy was I wrong. 1835 It's been three years since we first moved here, I'm fifteen now, things haven't been very good since we got here. In the first couple days fights broke out all the time, more people died, both Chickasaw and Choctaw, Henry came back with his father every few weeks and visited Lushanya and I, we would talk and catch up in our house, sometimes we would play hide and find, but he never stayed long. I was walking through the village one day, kicking a rock around in the dirt, when, suddenly, a couple of the Choctaw boy stepped in front of me. “Look what we have here, a little Chickasaw girl.” One of the boys, Talako I think, taunted in Chahta Anumpa, the Choctaw language, which was pretty close to Chikashshanomp. “Well, look what I have here, some stupid, little, Choctaw boys.” I taunted right back, with a slight smirk on my lips. The boys didn't seem to like that very much. Their faces seemed to scrunch up in …show more content…

What happened to your face!?” She questioned me. “Gee, thanks.” I said sarcastically. “You know what I mean.” She rolled her eyes at me. “Talako, some of his friends, and I may or may not have gotten into a fight which resulted in the four of them on the ground.” I said and smiled as innocent as possible. “Shoteka! We can not go around starting fights with the Choctaw boys. Who knows what will happen!” She scolded me. I put my hands up defensively. “Hey, they threw the first punch! It was not my fault!” I exclaimed. “And that's not all,” Henry smirked, he wouldn't, “she told your father that she wanted to run away.” I glared at him, ohhh, I would love to wipe that smirk off his face! Lushanya gave me the same, your crazy, look as her father. Gosh, she is so much like her father! I thought. “Shoteka,” Lushanya hesitated on scolding me, “ that's actually not a bad idea.” Henry looked like he was going to faint. “Well it would be a better than staying here!” Lushanya and I exclaimed in unison. “It’s not that bad here.” He tried to reason with us. We both pointed at my scared face. “It is that bad here.” Lushanya said. Lushanya and I walked to the middle of the meadow and sat down, Henry shook his head but

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