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“Behold the wonderful work of our hands and let us be glad. Look upon the great mound; its top is above the trees and its black shadow lies on the ground. It is surmounted by the golden emblem of the sun, its glitter dazzles the eyes of the multitude. It inhumes the bones of fathers and relatives. They died on our sojourn in the wilderness. They died in a far off wild country. They rest at Nunih Waiya. Our journey lasted many winters; it ends at Nunih Waiya”
Anna Lewis, “Nunih Waiya”, Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society, 1938), 16:216-17, quoted in Bill Grantham, “Choctaw: Choctaw Migration (Cho5),” In Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), 158.