This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/1392.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Did you receive my message about the Choctaw origin of Shongalo? Yvmma shakolo (with the 'a' underlined) would mean 'that place of cypress trees (since cypress is a kind of tree it is unneccesary in Choctaw to say 'tree') yvmma shakolo laua = that place of many cypress