Chickasaws Indian

The Chickasaw Indian are originally inhibited  along the Tennessee River west of Huntsville, Alabama covering Mississippi and Tennessee. Sometime before the first European contact, the Chickasaw Indian moved east and settled east of the Mississippi River

At the first contact with the European, the Chickasaws Indian were living in villages in what is now Mississippi. The Chickasaws Indian may have been immigrants to the area and perhaps were not descendants of Indians of the pre-historic Mississippian culture. Their oral history indicating that they moved along with the Choctaws Indian from west of the Mississippi in pre-history.

Most of the Chickasaws Indian  was forcibly removed to Indian territory in the State of Oklahoma in the 1830s. The Chaloklowa Chickasaws, the Chickasaws Indian of South Carolina, have reorganized tribal government, and gained official recognition from the state in the summer of 2005, having their tribal headquarters at Indiantown, South Carolina. The Chickasaws Nation is the thirteenth largest federally recognized tribe in the United States.