A member of a Native American people originally from what is now Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, or their Muskogean language.
From the Chickasaw people's own name, possibly from Muskogean origins; the etymology of the name itself remains debated among scholars. The Chickasaw were historically known as fierce warriors and traders.
The Chickasaw were unique among the Five Civilized Tribes because they had the highest percentage of members who owned enslaved people, which shaped their experience during Indian Removal and their complex post-removal history in Oklahoma in profoundly different ways than other relocated tribes.
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