Chickasaw
Americannoun
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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
In March, the New York Philharmonic premiered an orchestral version of the Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s “Pisachi.”
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
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
So how did the Chickasaw director reconcile that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
His Chickasaw roots shared a lot in common with my Cherokee ones.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
He had also won sizable cessions from the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees, until the southwestern tribes had lost as many as 50 million acres by 1820.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The new policy applied to all the eastern tribes but especially affected the “Five Civilized Tribes” of the Southeast: the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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
Years later he saw her in the West: when the Chickasaws rose against the white settlers, Murfree got through to the besieged blockhouse where she was.
From Time Magazine Archive
During World War One, our country had used other Indians, Cherokees and Chickasaws, to send messages in their own language to confuse the enemy.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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