Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.
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“Chief Martin is often positioned as someone whose eye was on economic development but not cultural preservation, said Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ who has written two books on Choctaw culture. But “Chief Martin was fond of saying that Choctaw culture includes washing machines and basketball, just as much as hominy and [Choctaw] stickball.”
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