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Chickasaw
ChickasawThe Chickasaw are a Muskogean-speaking American Indian group whose aboriginal homeland was located in present-day northeastern Mississippi. The Chickasaw, one of the socalled Five Civilized Tribes, numbered about five thousand in 1600 and about seven thousand in 1980. By the nineteenth century the expansion of White settlement and resulting pressure on land and animal resources had forced the Chickasaw to abandon hunting and take up farming on a full-time basis. Continued White expansion and desire for the Chickasaws' land slowly pushed the group to give up their lands and migrate to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), a process that was completed by 1832. In 1906 the tribal governments of the Chickasaw and the other Civilized Tribes were dissolved by the federal government. In the 1980s the descendents of the Chickasaw located in Oklahoma numbered approximately seven thousand, and their tribal affairs were overseen by a tribal governor and ten-member advisory council. The Chickasaw subsisted through a combination of hunting, fishing, gathering, and agriculture. Bison, deer, and bear were the most prized game animals, and hunting expeditions often took the Chickasaw men on long excursions throughout the Mississippi valley region. Chickasaw society was characterized by a moiety organization, each half of which was divided into a number of exogamous matrilineal clans. Each moiety was headed by a priest whose primary responsibility was to oversee religious Ceremonies. Political leadership was vested in a head chief whose position was inherited within the leading clan and who was advised by a council of clan leaders and elders. At the bottom of Chickasaw society was a class of slaves taken in battles with neighboring tribes. The supreme deity of the Chickasaw was Ababinili, beneath whom there were numerous lesser deities, witches, and evil spirits. The Chickasaw believed that after death those who had led a good life found reward in the heavens, and those who were evil wandered endlessly in a land of witches. BibliographyGibson, Arrell M. (1971). The Chickasaws. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Kniffen, Fred B., Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes (1987). The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. |
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"Chickasaw." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Chickasaw." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000052.html "Chickasaw." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000052.html |
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw A Native American people that inhabited the region of modern northern Alabama and Mississippi, and southern Tennessee, and were descendants of the late prehistoric MISSISSIPPI CULTURES. They sided with the British in the 18th century and were attacked by the French and French Native American allies. They were forcibly moved to the OKLAHOMA INDIAN TERRITORY in the 1830s.
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"Chickasaw." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Chickasaw." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-Chickasaw.html "Chickasaw." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-Chickasaw.html |
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw Muskogean-speaking Native Americans, who originated in Mississippi-Tennessee (near present-day Memphis. One of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’, the US government established the Ohio River as their boundary in the Hopewell Treaty (1786). In the 1830s, the Chickasaw were resettled in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Today, they number c.9000.
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"Chickasaw." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Chickasaw." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Chickasaw.html "Chickasaw." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Chickasaw.html |
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Chickasaw
Chick·a·saw / ˈchikəˌsô/ • n. (pl. same or -saws) 1. a member of an American Indian people formerly resident in Mississippi and Alabama, and now in Oklahoma. 2. the Muskogean language of this people. • adj. of or relating to this people or their language. |
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"Chickasaw." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Chickasaw." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-chickasaw.html "Chickasaw." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-chickasaw.html |
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw, Alabama/USA Named after the Chickasaw people.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Chickasaw." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Chickasaw." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Chickasaw.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Chickasaw." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Chickasaw.html |
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw
•Nassau • hacksaw • heartsore
•bedsore • Ensor • fretsaw • chainsaw
•Esau, seesaw
•jigsaw
•ripsaw, whipsaw
•eyesore • Warsaw • bowsaw
•footsore • Luxor • plesiosaur
•stegosaur • Arkansas • Chickasaw
•dinosaur • brontosaur
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"Chickasaw." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Chickasaw." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Chickasaw.html "Chickasaw." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Chickasaw.html |
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