Diary Entry Of 10 Year Old Choctaw Child Day 1

   Diary Entry 1

Dearest Diary,

My name is Fala. It is a Choctaw name and it means crow. I have two sisters, a mother, and a father. My sisters names are Poloma and Nita. Poloma means bow and Nita means bear. I am ten years old, Poloma is fourteen years old, and Nita is eight years old. My mother's name is Isi. It means deer. My father's name is Shikoba. It means feather in Choctaw.     Today was a good day. In the morning, right after I woke up, I went outside. It was windy. I had to pick some crops. I picked squash, corn, and beans. Then my mother gave me, Poloma, Nita, and my father  some cornmeal. When we were all done eating, my father took his bow and arrows, got on his horse, and left to hunt meat for our family to eat for dinner. My mother got her pots that she made out of clay and she started making stews with the crops that I collected before we ate so we could have them in a stew for lunch. Poloma and I helped my mother make food by making cornbread and Nita collected more crops for tomorrow. Tomorrow there would be a big ceremony because the chief's wife had a baby very recently. Everyone in the Choctaw tribe needed to bring some food. Our family was going to bring a stew and enough utensils for every one to eat with. That would mean that tomorrow we were going to have to make stew and my father would have to hunt a buffalo or find shells because my family doesn't have enough utensils for everyone to use so we would have to make some more. Soon Nita came in with a lot of crops and Poloma and I finished the cornbread. Since we were done with our chores for now, we got to play. The three of us played a game. Our game got interrupted when my father came and shouted "I caught a buffalo!" Then we had to go and see. The buffalo was huge! My father took the horns off the buffalo and my mother told us to get ready for lunch. Then she gave us stew with beans, squash, corn, and turkey. It was really good. Then Poloma, Nita, and I went to play with our beaded dolls. After awhile it was time for dinner. We went over to my mother and she gave us more stew and cornbread. She also gave us hickory milk. After dinner our family played a game together and we had to write in our journals. I have to go to bed now because tomorrow we will have our ceremony. We will need to wake up earlier then usual because we will need to prepare for the ceremony.

Sincerely,

Fala