----- Original Message ----- From: patsy8259 To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Choctaw Cry, Tennessee Williams Play Josie, Here are some things that may be of interest to you for your play. Some phone numbers are included. Let me know how things work out on the play. 1. Choctaw Nation Museum ( there may be some written history about the "Choctaw Cry". (lots of old timers hang out here and they should be able to help you, I would ask the museum curator and former ones if they are still alive in the area) Tuskahoma is where I used to live and they would know anything and everything here, I would think. Tuskahoma is a very small place. address: Route 1 Box 105AAA Tuskahoma, Oklahoma 74574 telephone:918-569-4465 2. The Native American Directory (you can probably order this book through the interlibrary loan program with the Library of Congress free of charge)(go to the back of this book and you will find tons of Indian information and you can go directly to Choctaw in the Directory.(music, magazines and other things of interest). number: E762N371996 published by National Native American Cooperative Fred Snyder Director (you might contact this director to get more inside information) 3. Indian Journal (periodical, magazine)) address: Box 689 Eufaula,Oklahoma 74432 4. Wilburton Oklahoma also has a small college there and might be of some help in your research. There is also I believe a Choctaw College somewhere in the area; it is in the book listed in number # 2 5. Bishinik Newspaper Choctaw Nation P.O. Drawer 1210 Durant, Oklahoma 74701 telephone: 405-924-8280 fax: 405-924-1150 6. (Magazine) The Buckskin, Route 3, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 74432 7. ( Indian Music ) Indian Records, PO Box 47, Fay Oklahoma 73153 telephone: 405793-1442 8. Talihina Agency , Bureau of Indian Affairs PO Drawer H Talihina Okalahoma74571 telephone: 918-567-2207 fax: 918-567-2061