Chakchiuma

The Chakchiuma were a North American Indian people who originally settled in the southeastern United States on the Yazoo River in present-day Mississippi. Their dialect was closely related to the Choctaw and Chickasaw languages ​​(language) and belonged to the family of languages ​​of the Muskogean languages. The name comes from the Choctaw Chakchiuma and can be " red crayfish " ( Shåktci - crayfish, homma - red) to be translated.

History

They were closely related to the Houma, whose trunk had split before the first contact with whites. The Chakchiuma migrated with the Choctaw and Chickasaw from the western United States in the southeastern forest land and settled in the vicinity of the rivers Yazoo River and Yalobusha River. James Mooney estimated their number at around 1,200 people in 1650. On a French map of 1697 shows that another group settled near Sabougla, but this could also have one of the Sawokli. At the time of the expedition De Sotos 1540 the tribes of the Chickasaw and the Chakchiuma were enemies. As a missionary was killed by the force as a martial Chakchiuma during the French colonization of Louisiana, other tribes were incited by the French to attack the Chakchiuma. As a result of these attacks, the strain was significantly depleted during the early 18th century, parts of the tribe went to the Chickasaw on. The population by 1722 was estimated at about 150 people.

During the Natchez Uprising, the remaining Chakchiuma sided with the French and fought on their side against the 1739 Chikasaw. Whether the Chakchiuma was completely destroyed by a joint effort of the Chickasaw and Choctaw is not secured. A large communities of Choctaw named Chakchiuma, possibly the remnants of the tribe went to the Chowtaw on.