Chickasaw
noun
- pl. Chickasaws or Chickasaw a member of a North American Indian people that formerly lived in N Mississippi and Alabama and now lives in Oklahoma
- the Muskogean language of this people, closely related to Choctaw
See Chickasaw in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(chĭkˈə-sôˌ)
noun pl. Chick·a·saw or
Chick·a·saws a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now located in south-central Oklahoma. The Chickasaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
b. A member of this people.
- The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
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