The Chickasaws are a tribe Amerindian not living in the south-east of the the United States. Their origin is unspecified. When Europeans met them, they lived in villages of what is currently the the Mississippi, the Western Tennessee, and also in more small number in South Carolina. But Chickasaws were probably themselves of the immigrants in these regions and they were perhaps not descendants of the Indians of the culture of the prehistoric Mississippi.

Communities existed in South Carolina, North Carolina and in the the Mississippi.

Proud warriors, Chickasaws had a reputation of great bravery to the combat. Their warlike culture was compared with that of the Spartiates. The first contacts of Europeans with Chickasaws goes up with 1540, when the Spanish Conquistador S of Hernando De Soto met them. After several nuisances, Chickasaws tackled the forwarding of Soto and the Spaniards have to flee.

Chickasaws started to trade with the British after the foundation of the colony of the province of Caroline in 1670. With weapons provided by English, Chickasaws attacked their enemies the Choctaw S, of which they were close relatives. They sold Choctaws after having reduced them in slavery. Choctaws could cease this practice when the French sold weapons to them. Chickasaws often fought the French and Choctaws at the 18th century as for example with the Bataille of Ackia the May 26th 1736, until the French give up their aimings on the area after the Guerre Seven Year old.

The Eastern branch of the tribe, in Carolines, was taken out of clipper between their worst enemy, the Creeks, along Savannah River, and the colonists European along the coast. The majority of the tribe was off-set in the Indian Territoires (today in the area of Ada in Oklahoma) in the years 1830, with the Five tribes civilized. This forced displacement, legalized by the Indian Removal Act, was named the Piste of the Tears. During the American Civil War, the Chickasaw nation was allied with the South and it was the last community confederated to go. The capital of the nation Chickasaw (1855-1907) was Tishomingo, Oklahoma. The remainder of Chickasaws of South Carolina reorganized a tribal government, and started a procedure until obtaining a recognition by the State at the summer 2005. These Chickasaws established their tribal general headquarter with Indiantown in South Carolina.

Culture

The Pashofa , made white Semolina of corn with Pig boiled, is a typical dish still carried out nowadays. The pig is not an indigenous species in America: they are escaped pigs of the forwarding of Soto and incomes in a wild state.

Obion is an Indian term Chickasaw which means river of many forks”.

The suffix “- mingo” is employed to identify a chief. For example, Tishomingo was the name of a famous Chickasaw chief. The town of Tishomingo, the Mississippi and the Comté of Tishomingo (the Mississippi) was baptized in its honor. The Black Mingo Creek ( black split of Mingo ) in South Carolina was baptized name of the colonial chief Chickasaw, who ordered the grounds neighborhood as a kind of hunting preserve. Sometimes, generally in older literary references, one writes “minko.

Some Chickasaws famous

  • Bill Anoatubby, Governor of the nation Chickasaw Nation since 1987
  • Molly Culver, actress
  • Tom Sticks, republican Membre (Oklahoma of the Congress of the United States
  • John Herrington, astronaut of NASA, first Amerindian with going in space
  • Linda Hogan, author
  • Rodd Redwing, actor
  • Fred Waite, Cowboy

External bonds

  • Chikasaw - Joshua Project
  • the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma (official site)
  • " Chickasaws: The people invincible" , a short history by Greg O' Brien, Ph.D.
  • Encyclopedia of the Indians of North America
  • History of Chickasaw by Lee Sultzman
  • John Bennett Herrington, the first astronaut of Indian origin (on chickasaw.net)
  • Capital Building
  • Tishomingo

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