The Chickasaws Settled on Ridge Tops

Richard Green

Tribal Historian Richard Green points out that the Chickasaws settled in east-central or northeastern Mississippi. Instead of living along stream beds, where chiefdoms had been located, Chickasaws built their villages atop ridges.

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