Choctaws
- plural of Choctaw.
Example Sentences
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Zach Jones had 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Choctaws.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
“The Choctaws were the heirs of the mound-building Mississippian cultures of the Southeast,” Jean Stockstill Hartfield wrote in an article published in The Historical Reporter, a publication of the Pearl River County Historical Society.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2020
Elsewhere on the continent, Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and the Indians of New France used similar tactics to safeguard their independence by pitting one European power against another.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Somehow, somewhere in Louisiana, a few Choctaws escaped and traveled south, mingling with white settlers and members of other tribes, mixing their traditions with new practices picked up on the coast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2017
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
