In a message dated 7/24/2002 10:23:04 AM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > The area called Kentucky was originally hunting grounds only, hunted by many > SE Indian people. I think the Chickasaw claimed some portion of it. > > George Ann > > George Ann, according to the map sketches I've seen in the book "Dancing Rabbit" by Broox Sledge (1986), the Chickasaw's land was to the north of the Choctaw Nation and covered the northern part of Mississippi and extended into Tennessee. Did it extend farther then that into Kentucky? Also, I have read in some article somewhere that the Choctaw people originally came from the MidWest and moved south to get away from a lot of tribal warfare. If that is so, then could it be possible that their original hunting grounds may have been much closer to Kentucky and that possibly they never ever really gave them up when they moved south into Mississippi, that is if this story is correct about them originally coming from farther north? John Craven New Orleans