Crossword-Solution: CHOCTAWS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Choctaws | n. pl. | A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. |
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| Mississippi Indians | 1 answer |
| Muskogean Indians | 1 answer |
| Native Alabamans | 1 answer |
| Some southern Native Americans | 1 answer |
| Southeast natives | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with CHOCTAWS (5)
There were but twenty thousand of the Choctaws left, he said, and their number was decreasing every day.
High Jack had took up that line too, and had read papers about it before all kinds of riotous assemblies--Chautauquas and Choctaws and chowder-parties, and such.
Smith, "Myths of the Iroquois", "Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology" (Washington, 1883), page 77.) The Crawfish band of the Choctaws are in like manner descended from real crawfish, which used to live under ground, only coming up occasionally through the mud to the surface.
Once a party of Choctaws smoked them out, taught them the Choctaw language, taught them to walk on two legs, made them cut off their toe nails and pluck the hair from their bodies, after which they adopted them into the tribe.
The route was perfectly feasible, being short and entirely within the reservations of the Choctaws and Cherokees, civilized Indians.
Quotes with CHOCTAWS (2)
The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1979–2013).