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Criminalizing Choctaw Whooping
October 13, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
The Choctaw Language and History Workshop
George Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida
Frankie Bauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University
Jamie Henton Pennsylvania State University
Seth Katenkamp, Yale University
Julie Reed, Pennsylvania State University
Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Stoop, University of Florida
Matthew Tyler, Cambridge University
Abstract: 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.
The Choctaw Language and History Workshop is an interdisciplinary collaboration between linguists, historians, and anthropologists dedicated to understanding and interpreting archival Choctaw language records for the benefit of scholars and all those interested in Choctaw language and history.
This talk is sponsored by the Elling Eide Professorship in Anthropology at University of Florida.