Choctaw Hymn 116: Antvt Bilia

Choctaw Hymn 116: Antvt Bilia or "Death Welcome." This recording is from Mary Lee Clark United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. This is from the album Chahta Uba Isht Taloa, no. 1 by Clelland Billy and others.
First verse:
Antvt Bilia la chi hatuk keyu;
Ak anta, ak achoshke; hoshonti kvt
Aiukpulot kohonchv ataya ya
Ai okhlilichit okpvni fehnvshke.

[@sarahcantu8420]

Great song 🐾 🐾👏👏👏

[@RhianaDeck]

I have not heard this in 20 years. Thank you, for this.

[@ishionsi]

wonderful! thank you

[@Dares9]

Thank you for these. I don't know much about Indigeneous people culture yet, but I want to learn. I'm from Poland.
I want to ask you, in "Antvt Bilia" which word stands for "death"? Bilia = death?

[@forbiddensnack2917]

I’m Choctaw. Billia means “To do”. Death is “Illi”.

[@rainrainlsn]

What are the lyrics. I'm black now. But my chicasaw great grandmother watched her black husband lynched. My uncle made a play about it. I feel like she is trying to tell me something