Chickasaw
Americannoun
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Chickasaws,
plural
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Chickasaw
plural
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a member of a tribe of North American Indians, formerly in northern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
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the Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
noun
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a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
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the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family and closely related to Choctaw
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“I think anytime with rehab you want to feel healthy, which I do feel good today,” Kershaw, 37, told reporters after the game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
She opened the program with the string orchestra version of “Pisachi,” commissioned by the Philharmonic from the Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Nor did he seek it — unlike his brother Carewe, Wallace didn’t trade on his Chickasaw heritage to promote his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
But he said he was heartened by the willingness of the state’s tribal nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Osage — to offer the program to eligible Native and non-Native children on their reservations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
A paper trail to a Chickasaw great-grandfather none of them had ever known was a path into a past she’d spent her whole life escaping.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In the Southeast, tribes such as the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws occupied wide territories beyond the limits of white occupation and held the balance of power among the British, French, and Spanish empires.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
In the 1830s, there were five groups of American Indians living in the Southeast: the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
It's the second track bought by a group affiliated with Global Gaming Solutions LLC, which is owned by the Chickasaws.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2011
As for her Chickasaw blood, she, like all Chickasaws, is proud of it and she would be proud to possess more of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before leaving Vincennes, Tecumseh informed Harrison that he was traveling south to bring the Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws into the alliance.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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