What other Native Americans did the Chickasaw tribe interact with?
The Chickasaws traded regularly with all the other Southeast Native Americans. These tribes communicated using a simplified trade language called Mobilian Trade Jargon. The most important Chickasaw neighbors were the Choctaws. Long in the past, the Choctaws and Chickasaws used to be the same tribe, but then they split. After that, the two tribes sometimes fought each other, and other times were allies. I read that the Chickasaw were part of the Five Civilized Tribes. Was that an alliance like the Iroquois Confederacy? No. Many people guess this, but it isn’t true. “The Five Civilized Tribes” was just a name that the white settlers used to refer to the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole, and Chickasaw tribes of the Southeast. These five tribes were never part of an alliance together, and they did not call themselves the Civilized Tribes in their own languages. Originally, the white settlers probably called them this because these five tribes were early converts to Christianity. They wer
