Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Chickasaw

CHICKASAW, an Indian tribe, occupying a reservation in Oklahoma. The tribe had a chief and a legislature chosen by popular vote, but its members are now citizens of the United States. Cotton and corn are grown by the tribe. The tribe numbers about 4,500.

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