Here is a little history about the great Choctaw people that lived in & around the Grenada area long before any others settled here. The Choctaw people have been in what is now Mississippi and West Alabama for over 400 years. There are different accounts of how the Choctaw first came to this area but the legend that follows has been handed down from generation to generation. It tells that the Choctaw once lived in what is now the Western United States and migrated to present-day Mississippi. For reasons unknown, the Choctaws left carrying the bones of their ancestors. The leader’s name was Chata and he led them in the way that they were to go. At the end of each day’s journey, Chata would place a pole in the ground. Each morning the pole would lean toward the east, so whereas they would go in that direction. The journey went on for months like this. One morning, they found the pole standing straight up. This was a sign from the Great Spirit that they were home. With that being said, the first white settlers of Grenada County were the missionaries who formed an Indian mission school around 1815 in the current town of Elliott. In 1830, the United States government purchased land from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. It was much of these lands acquired in this treaty that present day Grenada County was formed.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:16:17 +0000
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