Does anyone know anything about the Indian Tribe Chickasaw?

Question

Sources too please if possible.

1. What they ate?

2. Where do they live now?

Answer 1

The Chickasaw are a Native American people of the United States, originally, according to their verbal history, from west of the Mississippi River. Sometime prior to the first European contact, the Chickasaw moved east, and settled east of the Mississippi. All historical records indicate the Chickasaw lived in northeast Mississippi from the first European contact until they were forced to remove to Oklahoma, where most now live. They are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw language, both forming the Western Group of the Muskogean languages. "Chickasaw" is the English spelling of Chikasha (IPA: [tʃikaʃːa]), that means "rebel" or "comes from Chicsa". The Chickasaw are divided in two groups: the "Impsaktea" and the "Intcutwalipa". The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly removed to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian Removal. The Chickasaw Nation is the thirteenth largest federally-recognized tribe in the United States.

The origin of the Chickasaws is uncertain. When Europeans first encountered them, the Chickasaws were living in villages in what is now Mississippi, with a smaller number in South Carolina. The Chickasaws may have been immigrants to the area, and perhaps were not descendants of Indians of the pre-historic Mississippian culture. Their oral history supports this, indicating they moved, along with the Choctaws from west of the Mississippi in pre-history.

The first European contact with the Chickasaws was in 1540, when Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto encountered them and stayed in one of their towns, most likely near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. After various disagreements, the Chickasaws attacked the De Soto expedition in a nightime raid, nearly destroying the expedition, soon after which the Spanish moved on.

The Chickasaws began to trade with the British after the colony of Carolina was founded in 1670. With British-supplied guns, the Chickasaws raided their enemies the Choctaws, capturing Choctaws and selling them into slavery, a practice that stopped once the Choctaws acquired guns from the French. The Chickasaws were often at war with the French and the Choctaws in the eighteenth century, such as in the Battle of Ackia on May 26, 1736, until France gave up her claims to the region after the Seven Years' War.

The majority of the tribe was deported to Indian Territory (now headquartered in Ada, Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Remnants of the South Carolina Chickasaws, known as the Chaloklowa Chickasaws have reorganized tribal government, and gained official recognition from the state in the summer of 2005, having their tribal headquarters at Indiantown, South Carolina.

During the American Civil War, the Chickasaw Nation allied with the South and it was the last Confederate community to surrender in the U.S.

The Chickasaw Nation Capital (1855-1907) was Tishomingo, Oklahoma. The third capital building was used as the Johnston County Courthouse until recently, when it was reclaimed by the Chickasaw Nation. The present structure is built of red granite in the Victorian Gothic style, and is located in Tishomingo. Most government services are administrated from Ada.


[edit] Culture
Pashofa, cracked white hominy boiled with pork, is a main dish which is still eaten. Hogs are not native to the Americas, but escaped and became feral from De Soto's expedition.

Obion is a Chickasaw Indian name meaning "river of many forks".

The suffix "-mingo" (Chickasaw: minko' ) is used to identify a chieftain. For example, "Tishomingo" was the name of a famous Chickasaw chief. The town of Tishomingo, Mississippi and Tishomingo County, Mississippi were named after him, as was the town of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. South Carolina's Black Mingo Creek was named after the colonial Chickasaw chief, who controlled the lands around it as a sort of hunting preserve. Sometimes it is spelled "minko", but this most generally occurs in older literary references.

The Chickasaw Nation recently hosted a pre-screening of Mel Gibson's new movie, Apocalypto. Gibson held two pre-screening for two Native American audiences, at the Riverwind Casino in Goldsby, owned by the Chickasaw Nation, and at Cameron University in Lawton.[1]


[edit] Notable Chickasaws

Answer 2

The Chickasaw paid an unusually heavy price for a privilege most white Americans take for granted. They were first forced to fend off the claims of more than 4,000 whites before their lands were finally allotted to 6,337 Chickasaw and 4,607 black Freedmen. Of the 4,707,904 acres they had before, the Chickasaw kept only a small part, and by 1920 75 percent of this had passed into white ownership. At present the Chickasaw have only 300 acres which are tribally owned. With the dissolution of their tribal government in 1906 to allow for Oklahoma statehood the following year, the Chickasaw Nation ceased to exist. Many moved away or were absorbed into the local population. Several prominent political families in Oklahoma have Chickasaw roots, but aside from informal organizations, there was no Chickasaw tribe for many years. Other Oklahoma tribes reorganized under the provisions of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act after 1936, but the Chickasaw exhibited their traditional stubbornness and did not do so until 1963. They were not allowed to select their own chiefs until 1970 but are currently organized under a constitution passed in 1983. Federally recognized with an enrollment of more than 35,000, the Chickasaw are currently the eighth largest tribe in the United States.

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Answer 3

The Chickasaw Indians were one of five tribes that along with the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles were forcibly uprooted and herded westward, the removals varied in severity. The evacuation route was called the "Trail of Tears".
The Chickasaws probably had the easiest removal. There were fewer tribal members and better prepararions were made for the trip. Many of the Chickasaw died of smallpox.

The enclosed link would be a fascinating way to learn about the Trail of Tears.

Answer 4

Who cares about points? Beside, you can't give out more than 10 anyway. I agree, you need to do your own homework like the rest of us did. We didn't even have the internet to do our research when I was in high school -- had to go to the library and use a card catalog to find subjects then find the books in the shelves, check them out and take them home and actually read them. You will learn nothing by trying to foist your schoolwork off on other people. Suck it up and do what you were assigned.

Answer 5

THE CHICKASAW WERE ONE OF THE SO CALLED CIVILIZED TRIBES BECAUSE THEY HAD PERMANENT VILLAGES. THEY LIVED IN THE GULF COAST REGION. THEY ATE THE SQUASH AND CORN THAT THEY GREW IN ADDITION THEY WERE HUNTER/GATHERERS AND HUNTED AND FISHED. WHAT ARE LEFT LIVE MOSTLY IN OKLAHOMA
, ALTHOUGH MANY LIVE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE US.