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The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha I̠yaakni) is a federally recognized Indigenous nation with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States.The Chickasaw Nation descends from an Indigenous population historically located in the southeastern United States, including present-day northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [1]
Mar. 17—The Chickasaw Nation is now offering COVID-19 vaccines at no cost to all area residents, the tribe announced Wednesday morning, March 17. There are no tribal citizenship, employee or ...
The Chickasaw Nation was the first of the Five Civilized Tribes to become allies of the Confederate States of America. [36] In addition, they resented the United States government, which had forced them off their lands and failed to protect them against the Plains tribes in the West.
Established in 2009, Chickasaw Community Radio Network provides news, public affairs, weather coverage and a wide variety of music for citizens in south-central Oklahoma. Owned and operated as a public service of the Chickasaw Nation, KCNP is a non-commercial community radio station.
Douglas Hancock Cooper Johnston (October 16, 1856 – June 28, 1939, Chickasaw), also known as "Douglas Henry Johnston", was a tribal leader who served as the last elected governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to 1902. He was re-elected in 1904.
Aug. 14—The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma details the Success through Academic Recognition incentive program for Choctaw students nationwide who are enrolled in grades 2nd through 12th.
"Chickasaw" is the English spelling of Chikasha (Creek pronunciation: [tʃikaʃːa]), that either means "rebel" or "comes from Chicsa". The Chickasaw are divided in two groups: the "Impsaktea" and the "Intcutwalipa". The Chickasaw were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" who went to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian removal.
The preamble begins with, The Congress of the Confederate States of America, having by "An act for the protection of certain Indian tribes," approved the twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, offered to assume and accept the protectorate of the several nations and tribes of Indians occupying the country west of Arkansas and Missouri, and ...