The Chickasaw Nation

The Chickasaw were the smallest of the five great nations of the early-nineteenth-century Southeast, with perhaps 7,000 people around 1700 against some 17,500 Choctaw. The English name comes from a Choctaw phrase meaning that they left as a tribe not long ago, and both peoples tell of a migration from the land of the Setting Sun. Hunting parties ranged from the Atlantic to the Great Plains, and the Chickasaw may have been the first southeastern people to use horses in war. Their long-striding horse became famous. Descent ran through women, who arranged or approved marriages.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Elvis Presley Birthplace — 26 mi
  The two-room house in East Tupelo where Elvis Presley was born in 1935, with a museum and the church building the family attended, set near the vanished Black neighborhoods where he first heard the blues.

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