Tchoufakafla

Tchoukafala was a Chickasaw village recorded on French maps of the eighteenth century. Its Chickasaw name was Chokka' Falaa', and it stood among a number of communities whose fields and paths crossed the prairie country of northern Mississippi. French officials mapped the villages as they sought to understand and ultimately attack the Chickasaw.

In the 1730s the Chickasaw sheltered Natchez refugees who had fled conflict with the French in Louisiana. Governor Bienville led a campaign against the Chickasaw in 1736, while another French force attacked a separate village. The settlements were defended by stockades and fortified cabins, and their people moved villages closer together in response to the danger. Tchoukafala appeared among the villages recorded by French mapmakers during this period.