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how did the choctaw adapt to their environment
Threatened with European-American encroachment, the Choctaw continued to adapt and take on some technology, housing styles, and accepted missionaries to the Choctaw Nation.
where did the choctaw nation live
The Choctaw are a Native American people originally occupying what is now the Southeastern United States (modern-day Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana).
where did the choctaw nation descend from
The Choctaw are believed to be descended from the peoples of the Hopewell and Mississippian cultures, who lived throughout the east of the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.

Question: why was the nation one of five
Self-contained rewrite: why was the choctaw nation one of five