Chickasaws Acted on Strategic Interests
Wendy St. JeanWendy St. Jean, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet, discusses her master's essay, "Chickasaws: Firm Friends of the English?" and the strategic interests of the Chickasaw people during the early American and colonial eras.
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