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Chickasaw

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Chick·a·saw  (chk-sô)
n. pl. Chick·a·saw or Chick·a·saws
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now located in south-central Oklahoma. The Chickasaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
Chicka·saw adj.
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Noun1.ChickasawChickasaw - a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
2.Chickasaw - the Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw
Muskhogean language, Muskogean language, Muskhogean, Muskogean - a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
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"We will resume yesterday's discourse, young ladies," said he, "and you shall each read a page by turns; so that Miss a--Miss Short may have an opportunity of hearing you"; and the poor girls began to spell a long dismal sermon delivered at Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool, on behalf of the mission for the Chickasaw Indians.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Gore, for example, (the author of "Cecil,") a lady who quotes all tongues from the Chaldaean to Chickasaw, and is helped to her learning, "as needed," upon a systematic plan, by Mr.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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