Erb 's collaboration with students has led to some surprising new developments in the retelling of oral histories . Muscogee Creek middle school students and Erb created a video that combined animation , claymation and diorama sets to tell the story of Indian Removal . Their account has the Muscogee Creeks , freezing on the Trail of Tears , traveling through space to Paris , France , where beret-wearing Frenchmen teach the Creeks to stomp dance . Rabbit , the Muscogee Trickster , steals a coal of fire from the French and takes it back to the Creeks on their way to Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Joseph L. Erb