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Chickasaw

[ chik-uh-saw ]

noun

plural Chickasaws, (especially collectively) Chickasaw.
  1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians, formerly in northern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
  2. the Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.


Chickasaw

/ ˈʃɪəˌɔː /

noun

  1. -saws-saw a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family and closely related to Choctaw
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“I think anytime with rehab you want to feel healthy, which I do feel good today,” Kershaw, 37, told reporters after the game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

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My other grandma is from the Chickasaw Nation, and in her youth she was also an activist.

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Outside Sulphur, rising lake levels shut down the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, where the storms wiped out a pedestrian bridge.

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He had his own difficult relationship with his father, who was born into the Chickasaw Nation in 1894 in the town of Purcell in what is now Oklahoma.

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And when chiseled turkey bones were unearthed on Tennessee land once inhabited by the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and Yuchi peoples, archaeologists weren’t sure if they were for tattooing, medicinal uses or leatherworking.

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