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The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History
October 13, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In the 19th century, the Choctaw Nation passed a law to criminalize whooping, and many Choctaw citizens were prosecuted for this crime in the period between 1880 and 1906. This talk considers the linguistic, historical, and anthropological meanings of whooping for Choctaw people and the forces that led to its eventual criminalization.