Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from the Heart and Memory of the People

Tim Tingle. Cinco Puntos Press, $16.95 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-938317-74-6

In Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory, storyteller Tim Tingle shares what it means to be Choctaw through 11 moving tales. His subjects range from the ""Trail of Tears"" to ""Tony Byars,"" one man's account of finding friendship amidst enormous sorrow during his seven-year confinement in an Indian boarding school.

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