Definition of Choctaws

1. n. pl. A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

Definition of Choctaws

1. Noun. (plural of Choctaw) ¹

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Definition of Choctaws

1. choctaw [n] - See also: choctaw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choctaws

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Literary usage of Choctaws

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"It resulted that only six or seven persons claiming as Mississippi Choctaws were enrolled under the act of May 31, 1000, although from 6000 to 8000 ..."

2. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (1861)
"A large number of the Choctaws are the followers of curtailed." " 3. ... Education is highly prized by the Choctaws." " 5. The Choctaws haee a good ..."

3. History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the by Albert James Pickett (1851)
"CHAPTER THE Choctaws and Chickasaws descended from a people n' called the ... and the Choctaws upon the territory now embraced in southern Mississippi and ..."

4. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Franklin Lafayette Riley, Mississippi Historical Society (1901)
"Colonel Albert James Pickett in his History of Alabama gives an interesting and elaborate account of the burial and funeral customs of the Choctaws of the ..."

5. Indian Land Laws: Being a Treatise on Indianland Titles in Oklahoma and by Samuel Thomas Bledsoe (1913)
"MISSISSIPPI Choctaws - § 561—Mississippi Choctaws.—[41]. All persons duly identified by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes under the provisions of ..."

6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"Lt what time the Choctaws settled in Mississippi is as much a mystery to-day as ... The Choctaws owned and occupied more than half of the most valuable and ..."

7. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"NEED OF ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE Choctaws AND CHICKASAWS. BY M11. SM BROSIUS. I wish to call attention to the need of further legislation affecting ..."

8. The Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes: A Treatise Upon the Law Applicable by Lawrence Mills (1919)
"The allotments of Missis- ^ppi Choctaws were subject to a condition ... This condition was continuous residence upon the lands of the Choctaws and ..."

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