Tribal symbols decorate a deer skin drum.
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Meet the legislation and the government commission that violated America’s own treaties to try to break up the tribes.
There is a long list of Chickasaws past and present who have made their mark on the world.
The Dawes Act
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Telling Their Story
With a bold new movie that gets rave reviews, the Chickasaw take to the airwaves with their version of the famous dust-up with Hernando DeSoto. Hint: They win.
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A Q & A with the Governor
Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby talks about the tribe, its progress and its plans for the future.
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A Haven for Healing
Notable Chickasaws
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The Moundville Marvel
A photographic look at Alabama’s remarkable archaeological park that gives us a glimpse at just how advanced and extensive the early Americans really were.
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Mississippi’s Indian Tribes
A look at the nearly two dozen tribes who were the real early Mississippians.
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The Mississippi Mound Trail
The Chickasaw medical center is not just healing a tribe. It’s healing Native Americans across the land.
Some of America’s oldest and largest Indian mounds are scattered along the Highway 61 corridor. Just watch for the signs.
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Piominko is a beloved Chickasaw legend. The people of Nashville and a guy named George Washington owe him a huge debt as well.
The answers may still lie beneath the piles of ancient dirt that rise suddenly from the flat Delta landscape near Greenville.
The Forward Thinker
The Mystery of Winterville Mounds
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The great Chief Tishomingo was forced to confront epochal change. He handled it the only way anyone really can: head-on.
Mississippi’s most exotic tribe practiced child sacrifice, was led by the Great Sun and met an unhappy fate at the hands of the French.
Chief of Change
The Enduring Allure of the Natchez Indians
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The Chickasaw Who Changed the Law
Thanks to Betsy Love Allen, Mississippi became the first state to grant property rights to married women. Chickasaw Nation Part 1
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