Editing Chickasaw (section)

== Repatriation efforts ==
After they signed the treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832 and were forced from their native land in Mississippi, the Chickasaw tribe immigrated to its now-home in Oklahoma.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Phelps |first1=Dawson A. |last2=Gibson |first2=Arrell M. |date=May 1972 |title=The Chickasaws. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2206449 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=299 |doi=10.2307/2206449 |jstor=2206449 |issn=0022-4642}}</ref> While their current residence is far from their native territory, the ancestral remains of many Chickasaw members are still located in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. Among these remains, many were excavated and stored within the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH).<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Magazine |first1=Smithsonian |last2=McGreevy |first2=Nora |title=Mississippi Returns Hundreds of Native Americans' Remains to Chickasaw Nation |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-american-remains-kept-storage-years-repatriated-mississippis-chickasaw-nation-180977394/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref> In 2021 the MDAH repatriated 403 Chickasaw ancestors to the tribe. The organizations director of archaeology, Meg Cook, addressed the MDAH’s efforts: “We’re doing everything that we can to reconcile the past and move forward, in a very transparent way. It’s our responsibility to tell the Mississippi story. And that means all of the bad parts, too."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-30 |title=Years later, Chickasaw remains returning to Mississippi home |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-afc7b58ea5f1a1516f70a34dd71a39e8 |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>