| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023284 |
| Organization name | Chickasaw indians |
| Other names | Chicachas;Chicasa;Chichacha;Chickesaw;Chikasaw |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Located in the Southeastern Woodlands of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The Chickasaw were one of the Five Civilized Tribes, a group of Indian tribes who had to an extent accepted European culture and technology. Muskogean-speakers. These renowned warriors were longtime allies of England, and adroitly played on international rivalries by variously signing treaties with Spain and US between the 1780s and 1800s. By 1798, the Chickasaw recognized the mania for land among American settlers and substitute cattle ranching and cotton farming for their old deerskin economy. The early 19th century saw Protestant missionaries teaching the Chickasaw Christianity, literacy, arithmetic, and domestic practices. When the Mississippi government invalidated all Indian land claims in 1829 and the US Government passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the Chickasaw signed a treaty in 1832 ceding all of their Mississippi land rights in return for money to offset the costs of removal and new territory purchases. This land was not found until 1837, when the Choctaws agreed to sell the westernmost part of their land in Doaksville, Oklahoma. |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickasaw","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickasaw ; http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/8/chickasaws-the-unconquerable-people |
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793