chocktaw

Updated: May 26, 2025

The Cherokee empire had now endured for five years and was about to rise "into a far greater state of puissance by the acquisition of the Muskohge, Chocktaw and the Western Mississippi Indians," when fortunately for the history of British colonization in America, "an accident befell the Secretary."

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

It seems a little curious to me that Paul for the purpose of quieting the mob, would speak to that mob in an unknown language. If I were mobbed in the city of Chicago, and wished to defend myself with an explanation, I certainly would not make that explanation in Chocktaw, even if I understood that tongue.

Robert Green Ingersoll - Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I: Including His Answers to the Clergy,: His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.

For food I knew that I could rely on berries, roots, shoots, mosses, mushrooms, fungi, bungi in fact the whole of Nature's ample storehouse; for my drink, the running brook and the quiet pool; and for my companions the twittering chipmunk, the chickadee, the chocktaw, the choo-choo, the chow-chow, and the hundred and one inhabitants of the forgotten glade and the tangled thicket.

Stephen Leacock - Frenzied Fiction

At this stage of their existence they were an exceedingly fierce and warlike people, not only contending with these tribes, but also with many others out west and south, even to the Chocktaw and Cherokee country and to the Flatheads, Sioux Indians and the Underground race of people out west.

Andrew J. Blackbird - History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan : A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author