Choctaw

Choc·taw

C0317000 (chŏk′tô)n. pl. Choctaw or Choc·taws 1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama. Present-day populations exist in Oklahoma, to which many of the Choctaw were removed in the 1830s, as well as in their former homelands.2. The Muskogean language of the Choctaw.

[Choctaw Chahta.]

Choctaw

(ˈtʃɒktɔː) npl -taws or -taw1. (Peoples) a member of a Native American people of Alabama2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family[C18: from Choctaw Chahta]

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(ˈtʃɒktɔː) n (Ice Skating) skating a turn from the inside edge of one skate to the outside edge of the other or vice versa[C19: after Choctaw]

Choc•taw

(ˈtʃɒk tɔ)

n., pl. -taws, (esp. collectively) -taw. 1. a member of an American Indian people orig. of central and S Mississippi, removed in large part to the Indian Territory in 1831–33. 2. a dialect of the Muskogean language shared by the Chickasaw and Choctaw.

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Noun	1.	Choctaw - a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in AlabamaMuskhogean, Muskogean - a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
	2.	Choctaw - the Muskhogean language of the ChoctawChahtaMuskhogean language, Muskogean language, Muskhogean, Muskogean - a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States

Choctaw

(chŏk`tô), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). They formerly occupied central and S Mississippi with some outlying groups in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. Choctaw culture was similar to that of the Creek and Chickasaw, who were their enemies in repeated wars. The Choctaw economy was based on agriculture, and the Choctaw were perhaps the most competent farmers in the Southeast. Friendly toward the French colonists, the Choctaw were their allies in wars against other tribes. After being forced to cede their lands in Alabama and Mississippi, they moved (1832) to the Indian TerritoryIndian Territory,
in U.S. history, name applied to the country set aside for Native Americans by the Indian Intercourse Act (1834). In the 1820s, the federal government began moving the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) of the Southeast to
..... Click the link for more information. in Oklahoma, where they became one of the Five Civilized Tribes. In 1990 there were over 85,000 Choctaw in the United States, with more than half living in Oklahoma.

Bibliography

See A. Debo, The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (3d ed. 1967); A. H. DeRosier, The Removal of the Choctaw Indians (1971); W. D. Baird, Peter Pitchlynn: Chief of the Choctaws (1972); C. K. Reeves, The Choctaw Before Removal (1985).

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noun a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama

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noun the Muskhogean language of the Choctaw

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