Choctaws

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 205

Choctaws, a tribe of American Indians, belonging to the Appalachian stock, and formerly inhabiting the central portions of Mississippi, but now settled in the south-east of Indian Territory, where they are regarded as one of the four civilised nations, and hold 6,668,000 acres of land. They have benefited greatly by the labours of missionaries, and have become good farmers and mechanics.

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