Editing Five Civilized Tribes (section)

===Chickasaw===
{{Main|Chickasaw|Chickasaw Nation}}

The [[Chickasaw]] are Indian people of the United States who originally resided along the [[Tennessee River]] and other parts of present-day [[Tennessee]], in the southwest side of present-day [[Kentucky]], west of present-day [[Huntsville, Alabama]], and in parts of Mississippi. They spoke some French and some English. Some historians credit the Chickasaw intervention in the French and Indian War on the side of the British as decisive in ensuring that the United States became an English-speaking nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chickasaw.net/Our-Nation/History.aspx |title=The Official Site of the Chickasaw Nation &#124; History |publisher=Chickasaw.net |date=2014-10-31 |access-date=2015-10-18}}</ref> Originating further west, the Chickasaw moved east of the [[Mississippi River]] long before European contact. All historical records indicate the Chickasaw lived in northeastern Mississippi from the first European contact until they were forced to remove to Oklahoma, where most now live.

The Chickasaw are related to the [[Choctaw]], who speak a similar language, both forming the Western Group of the [[Muskogean languages]]. "Chickasaw" is the English spelling of ''Chikasha'' ({{IPA|mus|tʃikaʃːa}}), that either means "rebel" or "comes from Chicsa". The Chickasaw are divided in two groups: the "Impsaktea" and the "Intcutwalipa". The Chickasaw were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" who went to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian removal. Unlike other tribes, who exchanged land grants, the Chickasaw received financial compensation from the United States for their lands east of the Mississippi River.<ref name=burt_and_ferguson>
{{cite book | author = Jesse Burt & Bob Ferguson | title = Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now | year = 1973 | publisher = Abingdon Press, Nashville and New York | chapter = The Removal | pages = [https://archive.org/details/indiansofsouthea00burt/page/170 170–173] | isbn = 0-687-18793-1 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/indiansofsouthea00burt/page/170 }}</ref> The Chickasaw Nation is the thirteenth largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. The Chickasaw built some of the first banks, schools, and businesses in Indian Territory. They also signed a treaty with the Southern United States during the Civil War and brought troops to fight for the Confederates.<ref>[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/FOR5CT/home.html#Chickasaw ''The Five Civilized Tribes'': Book II, Chickasaw] (Grant Foreman 1934).</ref>