This Is Who We Are: MOWA Choctaw Storytelling Alabama Folk
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- Society & Culture
For 41 years, Laretta Weaver led MOWA Choctaw cultural education in Mobile and Washington County schools. Through storytelling, Choctaw language, beading, weaving, basket making, dancing, drumming, and pow wows, Laretta imparted cultural knowledge and pride in generations of local youth, which rippled through their adult lives and into the fabric of the whole community.
For 41 years, Laretta Weaver led MOWA Choctaw cultural education in Mobile and Washington County schools. Through storytelling, Choctaw language, beading, weaving, basket making, dancing, drumming, and pow wows, Laretta imparted cultural knowledge and pride in generations of local youth, which rippled through their adult lives and into the fabric of the whole community.
26 min