Wahoo McDaniel

Ed "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.

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Wahoo was born in the small town of Bernice, Oklahoma in 1938. His father worked in oil and he moved to several towns before settling down in Midland, Texas while Wahoo was in middle school. The name "Wahoo" actually came from his father who was known as "Big Wahoo" and one of his baseball coaches was George H. W. Bush. He was a problematic teenager but he was accepted to Oklahoma University to be part of Bud Wilkinson's football program.

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Chickasaw: The Chickasaws are a Native American people of the United States, originally from present-day Mississippi, now mostly living in Oklahoma. They are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw language. The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly re...

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