See also:

• CHOCTAWS, CHAHTAS, or CHACATOS (apparently a corruption of Span. chato, flattened)

CHOCTAWS, CHAHTAS, or CHACATOS (apparently a corruption of Span. chato, flattened)  , a tribe of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Muskhogean stock . They are now settled in See also:

• OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, but when first known to Europeans they occupied the See also:

• DISTRICT

district now forming the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi and the western part of See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama . On the See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of See also:

• LOUISIANA

Louisiana they formed an See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance with the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, and assisted them against the See also:

• NATCHEZ

Natchez and See also:

• CHICKASAWS

Chickasaws; but by degrees they entered into friendly relations with the See also:

• ENGLISH

English, and at last, in 1786, recognized the supremacy of the See also:

• UNITED

United States by the treaty of Hopewell . Their See also:

• EMIGRATION (from Lat. emigrare; e, ex, out of, and migrare, to depart)

emigration westward began about 1800, and the last remains of their See also:

• ORIGINAL

original territory were ceded in 1830 . In their new settlements the See also:

• CHOCTAWS, CHAHTAS, or CHACATOS (apparently a corruption of Span. chato, flattened)

Choctaws continued to advance in prosperity till the outbreak of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, which considerably diminished the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population and ruined a large part of their See also:

• PROPERTY

property . They sided with the Confederates, and their territory was occupied by Confederate troops; and accordingly at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the war they were regarded as having lost their rights . Part of their See also:

• LAND

land theywere forced to surrender to the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government; their slaves were emancipated; and See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision was claimed for them in the shape of either land or See also:

• MONEY

money . Since then they have considerably recovered their position . They See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long constituted a quasi-See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

• PEOPLE

people under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the See also:

• CHOCTAW

Choctaw nation, and were governed by a See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief and a See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• FORTY

forty members, according to a written constitution, dating in the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main from 1838; they possessed a See also:

• REGULAR

regular judicial See also:

• SYSTEM

system and employed trial by See also:

• JURY

jury . Tribal government virtually ceased in Igoe . The Choctaws number some '18,000 . A few See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups still linger in Mississippi and Louisiana .

The Choctaw See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language has been reduced to See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, and brought to some degree of See also:

• LITERARY

literary precision . See INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W . See also:

• HODGE, CHARLES (1797-1878)

Hodge (See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington, 1907) .