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	Chickasaw Language and the Chickasaw Indian Tribe (Chikasha, Chickasha)
		Chickasaw Language and the Chickasaw Indian Tribe (Chikasha, Chickasha)
		Chickasaw is an Muskogean language of the American Southeast.
		There are around 1000 speakers of Chickasaw today (most in Oklahoma, where the Chickasaw were forcibly relocated in the 1800's), and another 10,000 speakers of Choctaw.
	www.native-languages.org /chickasaw.htm (193 words)

	OHCHR: Chickasaw () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chickasaw is spoken in south-central Oklahoma, USA, in the western part of the Chickasaw Nation, which functioned as an independent political entity during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Chickasaw is a seriously endangered language with only a few hundred speakers, the youngest of whom is close to 50.
		The Chickasaw originally lived in areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, but were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma by the United States government beginning in the 1830s on the Trail of Tears.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/cic.htm (381 words)

	Chickasaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly removed to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian Removal.
		The Chickasaws were often at war with the French and the Choctaws in the eighteenth century, such as in the Battle of Ackia on May 26, 1736, until France gave up her claims to the region after the Seven Years' War.
		During the American Civil War, the Chickasaw Nation allied with the South and it was the last Confederate community to surrender in the U.S. The Chickasaw Nation Capital (1855-1907) was Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chickasaw (626 words)

	What is Chickasaw?
		Chickasaw vowels are contrasted according to length and nasality.
		Chickasaw, like many Indian languages, is agglutinative, meaning that elements such as tense, case, and pronominal subject and object are expressed by morphemes added to the main verb of a sentence, rather than by separate words, as in English.
		Chickasaw language revitalization efforts have been underway since the 1970s, but the younger generations have mostly switched to English, and Chickasaw has not been taught as a native language for many decades.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-chickasaw.htm (0 words)

	Chickasaws: The Unconquerable People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Chickasaws hoped to trade with France too, but the French did not have enough supplies to trade with every Indian group in the southeast and they decided to make the Choctaws their principal allies at the expense of the Chickasaws and other native groups.
		Chickasaw chiefs led a new effort to encourage the production of renewable resources, such as cattle ranching and cotton farming, in order to establish a market economy among the Chickasaws and move away from dependence on the deerskin trade.
		The Chickasaws agreed to cede their lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for an equal amount of land in the west, but this treaty became void when a suitable area could not be found.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature40/chickasaw.html (2000 words)

	Chickasaw language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Chickasaw is a Western Muskogean language spoken by about 1,000 people mainly in Oklahoma.
		During the 17th and 18th centuries Chickasaw was used as a lingua franca among all the tribes of the lower Mississippi river.
		The Chickasaw were one of the five Civilized Tribes forcibly removed to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/chickasaw.htm (0 words)

	The Chickasaw People
		According to tribal traditions the Chickasaw and Choctaw were once one tribe; and the close similarity of their Muskogean languages seems to bear this out.
		The Chickasaw believed in a hereafter in which the good would go to their reward somewhere in the heavens while the evildoers would wander forever in the land of the witches.
		Between 1801 and 1832 the Chickasaw signed a series of treaties giving up their lands and agreeing to migrate to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), where some 5,000 Chickasaw and 1,000 slaves were subsequently settled on land bought from the Choctaw Nation.
	www.utm.edu /departments/acadpro/library/departments/special_collections/wc_hist/chksaw.htm (0 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for chickasaw
		North American Indian people living mainly in Oklahoma, U.S. Their language, Chickasaw, is a Muskogean language closely related to that of the Choctaw.
		Chickasaw A Native American people that inhabited the region of modern northern Alabama and Mississippi, and southern Tennessee, and were descendants of the late prehistoric MISSISSIPPI CULTURES.
		The Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Chickasaw tribes were forcibly moved to this area between 1830 and 1843, and an 1834 act set aside the land as Indian country.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=chickasaw&StartAt=1 (803 words)

	Chickasaw - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Chickasaw, Native American people of the Muskogean linguistic family, closely related to the Choctaw.
		The Chickasaw National Recreation Area is a popular tourist destination.
		The Jackson area was originally occupied by Native Americans of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Chickasaw.html (116 words)

	Native Americans - Chickasaw
		The Chickasaw warred constantly with the Choctaw, the Creek, the Cherokee, and the Shawnee.
		The decline of the Chickasaw can be traced to the conflict for control of interior North America between France and Great Britain.
		Probably because British traders were established in their country before the settlement of Louisiana, the Chickasaw fought on the side of Great Britain, and French attempts to make peace with them were unsuccessful.
	www.nativeamericans.com /Chickasaw.htm (167 words)

	Chickasaw Indian History
		The warlike Chickasaw claimed other territory far beyond the narrow limits of their villages, and extending on the north to the confluence of the Ohio with the Tennessee.
		The Chickasaw appear to have sheltered and ultimately incorporated into their organization the small tribes along Yazoo river, who spoke substantially the same language.
		The Chickasaw language served as a medium of commercial and tribal intercourse for all the tribes along the lower Mississippi.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/chickasaw/chickasawhist.htm (0 words)

	Facts for Kids: Chickasaw Indians (Chickasaws)
		Chickasaw is a rhythmic language that is very similar to Choctaw.
		Chickasaw men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families.
		When they were forced to move to Oklahoma, the Chickasaws couldn't get the materials they used to use for some of their traditional crafts, so they concentrated more on other crafts such as beadwork.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/chickasaw_kids.htm (1322 words)

	The Plainfield Experience
		The Chickasaw Nation had been staunch allies of the British, but had spent the war years not in battle with the Americans, but with their bitter enemies the Spanish who had acquired much of the former British holdings in the southeast.
		The Chickasaws, benefiting from the problems they saw that their Indian brethren the Choctaws had experienced, negotiated a clause in their treaties that the secession of their lands would not take place until suitable lands in the west were located and obtained.
		Tecumseh appears on the Chickasaw roll of 1847 as a full blood and head of the household that consisted of one male under 18 and two females under 16.
	www.chickasawhistory.com /plainfield.htm (3304 words)

	American Indian Language Resources
		Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
		Learning an Endangered Language A partial list of endangered languages and information on how and where they may be studied, where recordings may be obtained, etc. (more information on some of these and other languages can be found at the University of Minnesota Less Commonly Taught Languages page).
		Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas The Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas.
	www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/lang.html (1693 words)

	Language Revitalization & Preservation Initiative
		Rate the level of importance for the Chickasaw language to be used at school?
		Rate the level of importance for the Chickasaw language to be used at traditional getherings?
		Rate the level of importance for the Chickasaw language to be used at ceremonial getherings?
	www.chickasaw.net /forms/survey/survey.htm (0 words)

	Chickasaw Indian Tribe
		The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly removed to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian Removal.
		The Chickasaws may have been immigrants to the area, and perhaps were not descendants of Indians of the pre-historic Mississippian culture.
		The Chickasaws were often at war with the French and the Choctaws in the eighteenth century, such as in the Battle of Ackia on May 26, 1736, until France gave up her claims to the region after the Seven Years' War.
	www.comanchelodge.com /nations/chickasaw-tribe.html (0 words)

	Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
		We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
		If a link is dead, or you have one to add, or if there is a mistake on our site you would like to correct, information you would like us to add, or admiration you wish to express, here is our contact page, also with answers to frequently asked questions.
		Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
	www.native-languages.org (0 words)

	Chickasaw Times :: Official publication of the Chickasaw Nation
		The Chickasaw Nation Election Commission conducted a tribal election for five seats of the tribal legislature and one seat for tribal judge on August 22, 2006.
		Chickasaw ballplayers, Lindsey James, D.J. Pettigrew and Taylor Edgar had the honor of representing Oklahoma and the Chickasaw Nation at the recent ASA National 12 andamp; Under Softball Tournament, July 31 through August 6, in Midland, Texas.
		Chickasaw Cultural Center staff members are asking Chickasaws to help assemble as authentic and complete a collection of Chickasaw items as possible for the cultural center.
	www.chickasawtimes.net /september06/stories/index_general.shtml (1490 words)

	Chickasaw Natioin of Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With his leadership and commitment, the Chickasaw people are learning more about their ancestors and becoming experts on their personal histories.
		His commitment to rebuilding the infrastructure of the tribal government, while simultaneously providing for his people, is evidenced in the current financial status of the Chickasaw Nation and the vastly improved overall conditions of the people.
		When he was elected Governor in 1987, the Chickasaw Nation had 250 employees and operated under a $11 million budget.
	www.cherokee.org /ArkRiverBed/default.aspx?tabid=1558 (619 words)

	Chickasaw Language Programs @ Buffalo Trails - Chickasaw Language Menu
		Chickasaw language programs to all people who were denied their language and for all others who want to learn
		Three Chickasaw speakers, Yvonne Alberson, Jerry Imotichey and Carlin Thompson, provide the pronunciation of this introduction program to show the dialectal variance of the language as it is spoken today.
		Our Chickasaw language program was developed in conjunction with Chickasaw language tribal retention committees and have the endorsement and approval of the Chickasaw Nation.
	www.native-americans.org /languages/language-chickasaw.htm (1140 words)

	First Nations Composer Initiative
		Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate was born in Norman, Oklahoma and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
		Tracing Mississippi is a remembrance of the old Chickasaw territory in Mississippi and incorporates traditional songs and dance rhythms: the Chickasaw Garfish Dance song, the Choctaw hymn entitled Worth of the Soul, and an original melody by the Comanche composer Dr. David Yeagley.
		These varying regions of Indian Country are represented by contemporary orchestrations of social songs from different tribes and the chorus sings in the Chickasaw language.
	www.fnci.org /featured_03.asp (1245 words)

	Untitled Document
		Each language has its own quirks (including words that may be difficult to translate by themselves, but that still contribute to the meaning of the sentence).
		Chickasaw and English commands are very simple, but some languages have special verb forms that are used only for commands, while others use forms with prefixes or endings that also may have another meaning as well.
		Languages vary from allowing only one word order possibility (as with Garifuna) to more or less variable (like Chickasaw) to allowing all word orders (this is not too common).
	www.aicls.org /pages/pam.htm (3052 words)

	The Chickasaw Nation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We have reviewed the draft language for the Tribal Self-Governance Feasibility Study and are concerned that in its present form tribes may not be able to operate programs with the demonstration projects effectively.
		The language for burden of proof for appealing the withdrawal of waivers and appealing the rejection of final offers is unacceptable.
		Finally, clarification is needed in the conflict of interest section to specify what type of situation the committee envisions may arise that would require a conflict of interest prohibition.
	aspe.hhs.gov /SelfGovernance/Evaluation/comments/chickasaw.htm (318 words)

	Chickasaw Times :: Official publication of the Chickasaw Nation
		A celebration of the survival of Chickasaw language and culture through the boarding school era is scheduled for May, 2007.Event organizers are encouraging Chickasaws of all ages to participate in this event.
		The Chickasaw Foundation is accepting applications for the Ataloa Memorial Scholarship.The scholarship is available to full-time, undergraduate Chickasaw students at a two- or four-year college or university who are pursuing a degree in music or a music-related field.
		The Chickasaw Nation is proud to have 14 Chickasaw students who qualified for Chickasha Holitoplichi in the 2006 Fall Semester.
	www.chickasawtimes.net /february07/stories/index_general.shtml (1299 words)

	Chickasaw language - Definition, explanation
		The Chickasaw language is a Native American language of Muskogean stock.
		The language is closely related to, though perhaps not entirely mutually intelligible with, Choctaw.
		It is spoken by the Chickasaw tribe, now residing in Southeast Oklahoma, centered around Ada.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ch/chickasaw_language.php (0 words)

	Learn Chickasaw - Chickasaw Books, Courses, and Software
		This first scholarly dictionary of the Chickasaw language contains a Chickasaw-English section with approximately 12,000 main entries, secondary entries, and cross-references; an English-Chickasaw index; and an extensive introductory section describing the structure of Chickasaw words.
		Grammatical information is of interest particularly for its description of Chickasaw’s unusual "active" pattern of bery inflection, in which intransitive verbs may receive one of three different patterns of inflection for a subject.
		All three spoke their language first and understand the importance of retaining their language, culture and heritage.
	www.101language.com /chick.html (0 words)

	Language Museum - Chickasaw
		They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
		Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
		Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
	www.language-museum.com /c/chickasaw.htm (0 words)

	Manataka Books - Language Books & Tapes
		The Cherokee language frames an outlook and an intellect that can contribute much to civilization in the future, as it has in the past.
		Combines a beginning language and grammar text with a selection of essays on Choctaw history, language, and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
		Designed for classroom use and to preserve the rich heritage of the Choctaw language, the lessons introduce new words, explain sentence construction and correct usage, and provide exercises in grammar and composition.
	www.manataka.org /page476.html (0 words)

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