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  1. Chickasha / ˈ tʃ ɪ k ə ʃ eɪ / is a city in and the county seat of Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,051 at the 2020 census , a 0.1% increase from 2010. [5] The city is named for and strongly connected to Native American heritage, as "Chickasha" ( Chikashsha ) is the Choctaw word for Chickasaw .

  2. The Chickasaw Nation ( Chickasaw: Chikashsha I̠yaakni) is a federally recognized Native American tribe with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States. They are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, originally from northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [4]

    • 7,648 sq mi (19,810 km²)
    • Tishomingo, Oklahoma (Historically); now Ada, Oklahoma (1907-present)
    • August 30, 1856; 167 years ago
    • Bill Anoatubby
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  4. Chickasha is located forty miles southwest of Oklahoma City. Chickasha was founded in 1892 with the arrival of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. The town's post office opened in June of that same year, and incorporation came in 1902. Chickasha became Grady County's largest shipping point for cattle and agriculture, which remain ...

  5. By 1890 the railroad had reached Minco in the Chickasaw Nation, and the crews were moving south toward Waco, Oklahoma, on the northern banks of the Washita River. A post office was established there on October 20, 1890, with Jacob Descombs serving as the Postmaster. For reasons unknown, the post office was renamed Pensee on September 11, 1891.

  6. Chickasaw Indian Language (Chikasha, Chickasha) Chickasaw is a Muskogean language of the American Southeast. It is very closely related to Choctaw and many linguists consider them two dialects of a single language. There are around 1000 speakers of Chickasaw today (most in Oklahoma, where the Chickasaws were forcibly relocated in the 1800's ...

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