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Choctaws

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Choc·taw  (chktô)
n. pl. Choctaw or Choc·taws
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, with present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Muskogean language of the Choctaw.
[Choctaw Chahta.]


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The remnants of the Mohicans, and the Delawares, of the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees, are destined to fulfil their time on these vast plains.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
There were but twenty thousand of the Choctaws left, he said, and their number was decreasing every day.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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