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A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
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chickasaw
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Word definitions for chickasaw in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Chickasaw are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands . Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi , Alabama , and Tennessee . They are of the Muskogean language family and are federally recognized as ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 6364 Housing Units (2000): 2989 Land area (2000): 4.430822 sq. miles (11.475777 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.143052 sq. miles (0.370502 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.573874 sq. miles (11.846279 sq. km) FIPS code: 14392 Located within: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Chickasaw Chikasha , the people's name for themselves.
Usage examples of chickasaw.
The Chickasaw with the pistol seemed to fold up and collapse into the canoe.
The Chickasaw with the pistol went over the side of his canoe, spraying blood everywhere.
Another gun went off, just as the Chickasaw was rearing up for a strike.
In the southwestern corner of Tennessee, just above Tennessee Chute and the northwestern corner of Mississippi, was the fourth of the Chickasaw Bluffs.
First Chickasaw Bluff, just left behind, he addressed them all as one.
Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, Vvvicksburg, these fffour Chickasaw Bluffs, and Island Ten up here above us will be imp-regnably fffortified.
I could arrest criminals on gut instinct, Chickasaw County would have a lot less crime.
Samaritan and telling you that you have an obsessed, anti-Catholic, woman-hating criminal in Chickasaw County.
She wiped her forehead and watched as a heavy woman with five children lumbered across the grassy square of the Chickasaw County Courthouse.
From his window he could see the Chickasaw County board of education building.
It was consideration for the families of the girls that held her back, not worry about the Chickasaw County authorities.
The state legislature had recently promised a flood of state and federal money into Chickasaw County to preserve the old structure.
A massive low was moving in from the west, and he figured he had one day, maybe two, before Chickasaw County would be drenched.
There are a lot of things going on around Chickasaw County that indicate trouble afoot.
From her vantage point, Dixon assessed the man who controlled the county school board and the only bank in town, and who had enough discretionary funds to offer a reward that was larger than the base income of many Chickasaw County families.