The Chickasaw are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and s
Sculpture of a stylized 18th-century Chickasaw warrior by Enoch Kelly Haney, at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Oklahoma
A sketch of a Chickasaw by Bernard Romans, 1775
Historic Marker in Marion, Arkansas for the Trail of Tears
In the 1850s Holmes Colbert (Chickasaw) helped write the constitution of the nation in Indian Territory.
The Chickasaw language is a Native American language of the Muskogean family. It is agglutinative and follows the word order pattern of subject–object–verb. The language is closely related to, though
Chickasaw
…of Chickasaw from proto-Chickasaw peoples was determined by the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is referred to as Sakti Lhafa’ Okhina in Chikashanompa', which means “scored bluff waterway," known today as the Chickasaw Bluffs. Settling upon the river provided the people with a symbolic sense of new…
Chickasaw language stop sign, with Chickasaw word Hika ("stop"), in Ada, Oklahoma
Language offerings for audio tours at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, including Chickasaw, English, and Spanish