The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chickasaws \Chick"a*saws\, n. pl.; sing. Chickasaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.
Usage examples of "chickasaws".
There aren't more than four thousand Chickasaws in the whole world to begin with.
Whatever clashes the Creeks—or the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, for that matter—had in the future with the United States, they'd have to fight them without access to guns and ammunition from the European powers.
The fact that there was a war going on, in which both the Chickasaws and the Cherokees were allied with the Americans, just didn't matter.
That's a fair distance itself—and those Chickasaws won't have given up.
No revenge-seeking Chickasaws could attack them there without making some noise crossing the water—and Tiana's brothers had even better hearing than she did.
The area around Chatanuga was not one any hostile Chickasaws would venture near.
Although they were still within bow range, they were far enough away that the Chickasaws on the shore couldn't aim very carefully.
Sooner or later, he'd drive all the southern tribes across the Mississippi—the Cherokees and Choctaws and Chickasaws who'd fought alongside him just as surely as the Creeks and Seminoles who'd fought against him.
Although they were still within bow range, they were far enough away that the Chickasaws on the shore couldn’t aim very carefully.
The mixed-bloods politically dominate the Chickasaws nowadays, just like they do the Cherokees and the Creeks.
The fact that there was a war going on, in which both the Chickasaws and the Cherokees were allied with the Americans, just didn’t matter.
That’s a fair distance itself—and those Chickasaws won’t have given up.
No revenge-seeking Chickasaws could attack them there without making some noise crossing the water—and Tiana’s brothers had even better hearing than she did.
These, in contrast to the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, were wild Indians, giving to raiding, horse-thieving, and scalp-hunting.
The Indians of the eastern Territory were mostly of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.