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Chickasaws

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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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If you'll excuse my language," one peeved DOD bureaucrat told Indian Country Today, "the Chickasaws went ape shit.
Polar fleeced: Sen. Ted Stevens built a welfare state for Eskimos ... by Wallace-Wells, Benjamin / Washington Monthly
But only the largest tribes--most Creeks, most Choctaws, and the pragmatic Chickasaws, actively opposed and actually removed.
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic ... by Young, Mary / Journal of Social History
After eighty some odd pages of losing land, people, homes, and dignity at the hands of men like Hernando de Soto and Pierre Le Moyne Wells notes that in 1702, "the French-made peace in Mobile between the Chickasaws and the Choctaws marked the hopeful beginning of a new era for Mississippi's Indians.
Native Land: Mississippi 1540-1798 by Bredin, Renae Moore / MELUS
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