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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My other grandma is from the Chickasaw Nation, and in her youth she was also an activist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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
Carewe was especially skilled at leveraging his Chickasaw heritage to promote his projects.
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
The people of these “mound builder” civilizations dispersed before the European invasion, but we know their descendants today as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Natchez Nations of the Southeast.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
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
Settling at Tishomingo, he became the tribal attorney for the Chickasaws.
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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