Chickasha

The Chickasaw were a Muskogean-speaking people whose kinship and hereditary leadership followed the maternal line.

When Hernando de Soto encountered the Chickasaw in 1540, their villages lay in northeastern Mississippi. In 1736 their defenders repelled two French-led attacks on fortified villages, including Ackia. The United States obtained their traditional lands through the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832 and forced them to move to Indian Territory during the 1830s.