Some of the stories say they came from the west: one story sounds like the west coast another sounds like the plains. One story mentions a people called Cicimeca (or something like that). The interesting part of this is that this looks very much like the Nahuatl word Chichimeca, meaning the "untamed ones" and referred to all of the peoples living north of the Aztec Empire. George Ann >From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Hopiah >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:08:56 EDT > >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 > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHAHTA-L list discussions on history, culture, language. >Send msg. to CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com >Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes, >nothing in the subject line, turn off signatures. >Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com