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Preservation is a multi-level effort that involves physically protecting Choctaw historic sites, repatriating and reburying Choctaw ancestors and sacred objects that have been removed from the ground, conducting research on Choctaw history and traditional life and providing a variety of opportunities related to Choctaw history and culture for our tribal members and the general public.
Provides the services of locating, preserving, and protecting abandoned and historic Choctaw cemeteries within the Choctaw Nation service area.
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Offers a number of educational opportunities in traditional Choctaw arts with historically accurate methods and materials. Workshop style classes in arts such as pottery, flintknapping, making moccasins, traditional food preparation and more are offered as a way to revitalize the knowledge of our ancestors.
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Conducts archaeological surveys and limited excavations to ensure that Choctaw Nation construction projects do not damage the archaeological sites left by our ancestors or by the ancestors of other groups who have lived here.
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Revitalizing our traditional crops and sharing related knowledge, the program helps make it possible to revive traditional Choctaw foods. These foods are an important part of Choctaw heritage. Both tasty and healthy, they allow us to use our own culture to help us live healthier lives today.
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Since the advent of colonization, thousands of Choctaw ancestors have been excavated from their graves, and their bones and funerary objects have been put into collections around the country and the globe. The mission of the NAGPRA Program is to help Choctaw Nation repatriate these ancestors so that the Choctaw people can respectfully rebury them. This is perhaps the most sacred duty that the Historic Preservation Department performs. Note- "NAGPRA" refers to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, but this program also works towards its mission through all available laws, relationships, and responsibilites.