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Chickasaw, n. and a.|ˈtʃɪkəsɔː| Also Chicasa, Chicashaw, Chicaza, Chickesaw, Chikasa, etc. [ad. Chickasaw Chikasha.] A. n. A member of a Muskogean North American Indian people formerly resident in Mississippi and in Alabama, but subsequently in Oklahoma.
1674H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 461 Ye Cussetaws, Checsaws & Chiokees were intended to come downe and fight ye Westoes. 1722D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 14 The great and powerful Nation of Chicazas. 1744F. Moore Voy. Georgia 120 The Chickasaws, who lie upon the Mississippi river, between the Cherokees and the Choctaws. 1770P. Pittman Europ. Settlem. Mississippi 6 The Chicashaws formerly were very troublesome. 1854T. H. Benton 30 Years' View I. 626/1 The Chickasaws, Creeks, and Choctaws having previously agreed to remove. 1907L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vi. 163 In like manner the Chickasas were organized in two phratries. 1927W. A. Read Louisiana Place-Names 22 Perhaps Chickasaw signifies ‘rebellion’, the term referring to the separation of the Chickasaws from the Creeks and the Choctaws. 2. The language of this people.
1893Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 27 Dec. 3/1 Salus populi, suprema est lex, which, in Chickasaw, means, ‘The people are first bidden to the feast.’ 1933Bloomfield Language iv. 72 The Muskogean family includes..Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole. 1941M. R. Haas in L. Spier et al. Language, Culture, & Personality 42 Choctaw and Chickasaw are actually subvarieties of the same language. B. adj. Chickasaw Indian, an Indian of the Chickasaw people; Chickasaw plum, a wild plum of the Mississippi region (Prunus angustifolia); Chickasaw rose, the Cherokee rose.
1726S. Penhallow Hist. Wars New-Eng. (1859) 75 Col. Gibs..commissioned..Capt. Welch, with the assistance of the Chicksha Indians, to fall on them in several parts. 1736[see Indian n. 2 a]. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair viii. 71 The mission for the Chickasaw Indians.
1775J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 360 They have a large sort of plums..called Chikkasah plums. 1821T. Nuttall Trav. Arkansa vii. 137 The abundance of Chickasaw plum bushes forming a grove. 1864A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 328 P[runus] Chícasa..Chickasaw Plum... A fine fruit shrub, native of Ark., &c., often cultivated. 1867Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1865–66 VI. 390 Our beautiful foliaged Chickasaw Plum.
1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 108 The ‘chickasaw rose’, which is a beautiful hedge thorn, grows..luxuriantly [in Mississippi]. 1887Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/1 Along one side of his home..runs a superb hedge of Chickasaw roses. |