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The governor of French Louisiana wrote in 1726 that the Chickasaws “breathe nothing but war and are unquestionably the bravest of the continent.” Similarly, decades later British Indian Superintendent John Stuart called them “the bravest Indians on the Continent.” The Chickasaws claimed that they had “only to beat drums in our cabins” to scare theContinue reading “Chickasaw: unconquerable”

The Chickasaw were known as the “Spartans of the Mississippi River”,because of their brave warlike, stature. They were seen as unconquerable, the Chickasaw tribe are descendants of people called the Chickemicaws, who were among the first inhabitants of the ancient Mexican empire and the Mississippian culture. These ancient people built earthwork mounds at their villagesContinue reading “Chickasaw lifestyle”

The Chickasaw language was the primary language of Chickasaw people for hundreds of years. Chickasaw is a Muskogean language, and Chickasaw and Choctaw together form the Western branch of the Muskogean language family. The language loss occurred over time. Government boarding schools discouraged Indians from practicing their cultures and speaking their languages. Learning English wasContinue reading “Language revitalization”

The Chickasaw people value a lot of things like language, the preservation of family information is fundamentally important in understanding their culture, and, like oral tradition, it must be passed on to future generations of Chickasaws.The Chickasaw do not have a tradition of a time when they were without belief in a supreme being, whomContinue reading “Chickasaw Spirituality”

The diaspora of the Chickasaw tribe was forced from their homeland that was southwestern Kentucky, western Tennessee, northern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama. The Chickasaw people moved to Indian Territory during the “Great Removal,” on what was called the “Trail of Tears.”  Other tribes forced to relocate such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole, called theContinue reading “Diaspora of the Chickasaw”