Chickasaw
![The second leg of the de Soto Expedition, from Apalachee to the Chicaza](/Images/godic/202501/04/DeSoto_Map_Leg_2_HRoe_20084045.jpg")
![Sculpture of a stylized 18th-century Chickasaw warrior by Enoch Kelly Haney, at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Oklahoma](/Images/godic/202501/04/Chickasaw_cultural_center_14045.jpg")
![A sketch of a Chickasaw by Bernard Romans, 1775](/Images/godic/202501/04/Characteristic_Chicasaw_Head4045.jpg")
![Historic Marker in Marion, Arkansas for the Trail of Tears](/Images/godic/202501/04/Military_Road_Marker_US_64_Marion_AR4045.jpg")
The Chickasaw are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. They are of the Muskogean language family and are federally recognized as the Chickasaw Nation.