Choctaw

How To Use Choctaw In A Sentence

• The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower. Indian Games : an historical research
• Coca - Cola parties in Georgia, the chitterling strut in North Carolina, cooking for the threshers in Nebraska, a Choctaw funeral, and a Puget Sound Indian salmon feast. ‘The Food of a Younger Land’
• Particularly at issue were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida - the so-called Five Civilized Tribes.
• Under the treaty of 1855 the Choctaws and Chickasaws quitclaimed any supposed interest of theirs in the lands west of the one hundredth degree. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
• Ironically, Mowa Choctaw culture intersected with that of an even more famous group of dispossessed peoples, the Apaches.
• Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw.
• Thus it was taken into the Choctaw Native American language, whose expression "okeh" meant something like "it is so". BBC News - Home
• Prior to white resettlement in the early 1800s, the Delta had been largely occupied by a number of Native American communities, including the Choctaw.
• The Choctaw were surrounded by Confederates and held long-standing grievances against the United States.
• A 14-year-old girl from Yell County, Ark., named Mattie Ross hires Rooster to help track down an outlaw who murdered both her father and a Texas state senator before fleeing into Choctaw territory.