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Chickasaw

noun

A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi.

The Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw.

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"Chickasaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the early traders, if all were to be told, would require a book as long as the huge volume written by James Adair, the "English Chickasaw." Adair was an Englishman who entered the Indian trade in 1785 and launched upon the long and dangerous trail from Charleston to the upper towns of the Cherokees, situated in the present Monroe County, Tennessee. Thus he was one of the earliest ...

— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... Colonels Grant and Middleton, were added a certain number of Chickasaw and Catawba Indians; making a total of twenty-six hundred men. This army reached Fort Prince George on the 29th of May, 1761. On the 7th of June following, it took up the line of march for the enemy's country. The advance was conducted with ...

— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms

Words linked to "Chickasaw" : Muskhogean language, Red Indian, Muskhogean, Muskogean language, Muskogean, Indian, American Indian