Chickasaw The Chickasaw are indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.The history of the Chickasaw Nation in its present location began in 1855, when the tribe was separated from the Choctaw Nation and re-formed its own government. When Europeans first meet them, the Chickasaw were living in villages in what is now Northeastern Mississippi. The Chickasaw moved into Mississippi.Their oral history says they moved along with the Choctaw from west of the Mississippi River into present-day Mississippi in prehistoric times. The Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere spanned the Eastern Woodlands. The Mississippian cultures
