Chahta anumpa
Name: Chantelle Standefer
Affiliation: Language instructor at the School of Choctaw Language/Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Language: Chahta anumpa (Choctaw Language)
Language Family: Muskegon language
Geographic Location: Mainly located in southeastern Oklahoma and Mississippi, dispersed throughout the United States
Estimated population: 10,000 (Simmons, 2015, as cited in Brixey et al.,2020). However, this number would be difficult to truly estimate due to a variety of factors including United States federal policies of moving tribal members away from Native communities and potential cultural wariness of surveys/census taking.
Contributor: Chantelle Standefer
Choctaw Language Instructor
Native American Institute