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Chickasaw

Chickasaw

3 9.0
A member of a Native American people from the southeastern United States, especially Mississippi and Oklahoma
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkəˌsɔː/
translation icon : chickasaw
  • Shortly thereafter, the Chickasaw began to experience similar difficulties in Mississippi.
  • Chickasaw claim
  • Chickasaw Nations
  • Chickasaw people

Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up and their graves turned into plowed fields?

Examples

  • In return, the United States paid the Choctaw $600,000 and the Chickasaw $200,000.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The Choctaw and Chickasaw were two of the well-known Five Civilized Tribes of the southeastern United States.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The Chickasaw planned on using these funds to purchase new lands in the West.

    Academic text (2004)

  • My great, great, great grandfather was one of the last to travel the Chickasaw Trail of Tears.

  • His handful of scouts from the allied Chickasaw tribe have failed to detect the large enemy force.

  • With this agreement, the Chickasaw secured a designated district within the western portion of the Choctaw Country.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The Chickasaw finally found a new home in 1837 through the Treaty of Doaksville.

    Academic text (2004)

  • By this treaty, the Chickasaw District comprised roughly the western two-thirds of the Choctaw Nation.

    Academic text (2004)

  • We marveled at these treasures, objects carried by the first Indian in space, Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington.

    Academic text (2004)

  • John is proud to be a member of the Chickasaw Nation, which has a rich cultural heritage.

Synonyms

Native American
vsChickasaw
161 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is a member of one specific southeastern tribe rather than any group

Compounds

Chickasaw National Recreation Area
7.4

A national park in southern Oklahoma with mineral springs and clear streams

Chickasaw language
9.9

A language spoken by the Chickasaw people in the southeastern United States

Chickasaw plum
  • US
9.6

A small North American bush or tree that makes yellow to red edible fruit

Surface Forms

Chickasaw main

Etymology

Chickasaw as a proper name comes from the group's own word Chikasha used by the people themselves in the southeast of what is now the United States. That's why Chickasaw names the people from places like Mississippi and Oklahoma.