Crossword clues for chickasaw
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Chickasaw Chikasha, the people's name for themselves.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 139
Land area (2000): 0.228598 sq. miles (0.592065 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.228598 sq. miles (0.592065 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14156
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.436065 N, 84.493047 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chickasaw
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: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.764987 N, 88.083713 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36611
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chickasaw
Housing Units (2000): 5593
Land area (2000): 504.643640 sq. miles (1307.020971 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.840486 sq. miles (2.176848 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 505.484126 sq. miles (1309.197819 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.051169 N, 92.322842 W
Headwords:
Chickasaw, IA
Chickasaw County
Chickasaw County, IA
Housing Units (2000): 7981
Land area (2000): 501.557583 sq. miles (1299.028121 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.707568 sq. miles (7.012569 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 504.265151 sq. miles (1306.040690 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.934340 N, 88.937882 W
Headwords:
Chickasaw, MS
Chickasaw County
Chickasaw County, MS
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 the Chickasaw Nation.
Sometime prior to the first European contact, the Chickasaw migrated from western regions and moved east of the Mississippi River, where they settled mostly in present-day northeast Mississippi and into Lawrence County Tennessee. That is where they encountered European explorers and traders, having relationships with French, English and Spanish during the colonial years. The United States considered the Chickasaw one of the Five Civilized Tribes, as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans. Resisting European-American settlers encroaching on their territory, they were forced by the US to sell their country in 1832 and move to Indian Territory ( Oklahoma) during the era of Indian Removal in the 1830s.
Most Chickasaw now live in Oklahoma. The Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma is the 13th largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. Its members are related to the Choctaw and share a common history with them. The Chickasaw are divided in two groups ( moieties): the Impsaktea and the Intcutwalipa. They traditionally followed a system of matrilineal descent, in which children were considered to be part of the mother's clan, whence they gained their status. Some property was controlled by women, and hereditary leadership in the tribe passed through the maternal line.
The Chickasaw are a Native American people mostly living in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
Chickasaw can also refer to:
- The Chickasaw language spoken by the tribe
- Chickasaw Nation
Several places in the United States:
- Chickasaw, Alabama
- Chickasaw, Ohio
- Chickasaw, Louisville, a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky
- Chickasaw County (disambiguation), counties of that name in different states
Other:
- The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, an 1862 battle during American Civil War
- The Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Memphis, TN
- The Memphis Chicks, a minor league baseball team
- The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, a helicopter
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, various United States Navy ships
Chickasaw is also part of the name of the following places in the United States:
- Chickasaw Bluff in Mississippi
- Chickasaw Gardens, a neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee
- Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma
- Chickasaw Park in Louisville, Kentucky
- Chickasaw State Park (disambiguation), two parks of that name
- Chickasaw Turnpike in Oklahoma
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.