There are no hurt feelings at all! You are trying to learn about your people and that's good. One of the ways that we teach others is through stories. They aren't meant to be history like the kind of history that is taught in school books, but they are still "true." They explain why things are the way they are. Like our other creation story that tells about how the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast came out of the earth at Nanih Waiya. It explains why we all lived next to one another. There are also history books about the Choctaw, as you probably are already aware: Angie Debo's book "The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Nation," or "Choctaw Genesis" by Patricia Galloway, both of which are excellent and more focused on archeological evidence, contemporary manuscripts, and so forth. But our stories are important to pass on! Ahli, Ron