Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal

by James Atkinson

Book Overview

A thorough examination of the Chickasaw Indians, tracing their history as far back as the documentation and archeological record will allow

Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called "splendid and fertile" by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817350330
• ISBN13: 9780817350338
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"