Chakchiuma
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Chakchiuma |
| Ethnie: | CHAKCHIUMA |
| Language Group: | Choctaw |
| Family: | Choctaw |
| Stock: | Western Muskhogean |
| Phylum: | Macro-Algonquian |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None among Chakchiuma |
| The Chakchiuma were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. The Houma tribe apparently fissioned from this tribe some time prior to White contact. The Chakchiuma were devastated by the French, but later allied with them before being absorbed by the Chickasaw and Choctaw. |
| Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages) |
| MS (?) |
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| Year | History |
| 1540 | Village attacked by De Soto at the behest of Chickasaw, found village to be abandoned and on fire |
| 1690 | Tonti attacked by three Chakchiuma |
| 1700 | English induced Quapaw to attack Chakchiuma to obtain slaves |
| 1704 | Killed a missionary and, as a consequence, attacked by French, tribe reduced to one fifth its formed size |
| 1729 | Assisted French against Natchez |
| 1733 | Most had joined the Chickasaw, others had joined the Choctaw |
| Year | Total Population | LA | MS | Source | |
| 1650 | 1,200 | Mooney estimate | |||
| 1699 | Iberville | ||||
| 1700 | NAHDB calculation | ||||
| 1718 | LaHarpe estimate | ||||
| 1739 | French officer estimate | ||||
| 1758 | Swanton estimate | ||||
| 1784 | Swanton estimate | ||||
| 1800 | NAHDB calculation | ||||
| 1803 | Swanton estimate | ||||
| 1900 | NAHDB calculation | ||||
| 1910 | Census | ||||
| 1920 | Census | ||||
| 1930 | US Indian Office | ||||
| 1994 | Tribal roles | ||||
| 2000 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Acolapissa, Bayougoula, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Houma, Mobile, Napochi, Okelusa, Pascagoula, Pensacola, Tohome |
| Chakchiuma Sites: |
| Chakchiuma Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/chickasaw/chakchiumahist.htm |
| Choctaw Language http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Keeping_It/creole_book_keep_choc.html |
| Choctaw Language http://www.native-languages.org/choctaw.htm |
| Choctaw Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CCT |
| Choctaw Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CCT |
| Houma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houma_Tribe |
| Pawns of the French and English http://www.backyardnature.net/loess/ind_fr&e.htm |
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