Editing Chickasaw (section)

== Population history ==
The tribal traditions say that the Chickasaw once had 10,000 men fit for war. In 1687 [[Louis Hennepin]] estimated the Chickasaw population as at least 4,000 warriors (and therefore at least 20,000 people). In 1702 according to [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville|Iberville]] there were ca. 2,000 Chickasaw families. Their number then decreased a lot during the 18th century and early 19th century, including the [[Trail of Tears]]. Indian Affairs 1836 reported the number of the Chickasaw in year 1836 at around 5,400 people (another source says that the pre-removal population was 4,914 Chickasaws and 1,156 Black slaves). A report by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated 25 November 1841 says that around 4,600 Chickasaws already lived in Oklahoma ([[Indian Territory]]) while around 400 stayed in the east. In 1875 the Office of Indian Affairs reported that there were around 6,000 Chickasaws. This figure of 6,000 continued to be reported in 1886 and in all subsequent reports until 1897. Indian Affairs 1910 reported that there were 5,688 Chickasaws by blood, 645 by intermarriage and 4,651 freedmen.<ref name="Krzywicki">{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |pages=485–487}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs", Office of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1841. |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A2PBGWKCDCUSUE8A/full/AIHAF7ELMGXYOF84}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMFRAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA861 |title=Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885. Part II. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=1886 |location=Washington |pages=861}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Chickasaw |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH033 |access-date=2021-05-04 |website=The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture}}</ref> While the census of 1910 counted only 4,204 Chickasaws.

Chickasaw population has rebounded in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2020 they numbered 70,096 (including 32,579 in Oklahoma).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distribution of American Indian tribes: Chickasaw People in the USA {{!}} County Ethnic Groups {{!}} Statimetric |url=https://www.statimetric.com/us-ethnicity/American_Indian_tribes_Chickasaw |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.statimetric.com}}</ref>