In a message dated 7/25/2002 12:59:11 PM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > Some of the stories say they came from the west: one story sounds like the > west coast another sounds like the plains. One story mentions a people > called Cicimeca (or something like that). The interesting part of this is > that this looks very much like the Nahuatl word Chichimeca, meaning the > "untamed ones" and referred to all of the peoples living north of the Aztec > Empire. > > > George Ann > That would be interesting if the Aztecs considered the Choctaws as being "untamed ones." Especially if it was on account of the Choctaw habit of picking bones of the deceased. John Craven New Orleans