Mike Larsen: Interviews for Proud to Be Chickasaw

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At the SEASAM 2010 book signing in Tishomingo, Martha Larsen describes the different personalities and stories discovered in the elders she and husband Mike Larsen interviewed for this book project. She illustrates with an example of the hard lives some of their subjects had lived, and the stories they told.

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