Editing Chickasaw language (section)

==History==
Sometime prior to the first European contact, the Chickasaw migrated from western regions and moved east of the Mississippi River, where they settled mostly in present-day northeast Mississippi. Chickasaw towns and villages were structured to be densely populated as a wartime measure but encompassed larger areas when there was no conflict with enemies.<ref name="The Chickasaw People"/> A main house and main meeting ground were used to gather groups from the Chickasaw community for ceremonies, celebratory affairs, and to discuss important social, cultural, and political matters.<ref name="The Chickasaw People"/> There was a division and specialization in labor done by men who prepared the community for war, hunted for food, and made provisions for the defense of their communities while [https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/wc_hist/chksaw.php Chickasaw] women were matriarchal leaders of their households who cared for crops, children, and estate matters.<ref name="The Chickasaw People"/> They would eventually come into contact with Europeans as time passed on and European exploration of their lands took shape.<ref name="The Chickasaw People"/> That is where they encountered European explorers and traders, having relationships with French, English and Spanish during the colonial years. The United States considered the Chickasaw one of the [[Chickasaw Nation|Five Civilized Tribes]], as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans. Resisting European-American settlers encroaching on their territory, they were forced by the US to sell their country in 1832 and move to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the era of Indian Removal in the 1830s.