. Bulletin. Ethnology. 288 CHOCTAW [B. A. sued by a white hunter to the mountain which bears his name and driven over the diffs or shot to death. Before dying he is reported to have cursed the English and their cattle, and to this is attributed the fact that none of these animals thrive in Burton (Drake, Aboriginal Races, 285, 1880). It is possible that the chief has been conjured up to account for the name of the mountain. (a. f. c.) Choctaw (])0ssibly a corruption of the Spanish rhito, 'flat' or 'flattened,' al- luding to the custom of these Indians of flatteningthe head). An important tribe
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 288 CHOCTAW [B. A. sued by a white hunter to the mountain which bears his name and driven over the diffs or shot to death. Before dying he is reported to have cursed the English and their cattle, and to this is attributed the fact that none of these animals thrive in Burton (Drake, Aboriginal Races, 285, 1880). It is possible that the chief has been conjured up to account for the name of the mountain. (a. f. c.) Choctaw (])0ssibly a corruption of the Spanish rhito, 'flat' or 'flattened,' al- luding to the custom of these Indians of flatteningthe head). An important tribe of the Muskhogean stock, formerly occu- pying middle and s. Mississippi, their ter- ritory extending, in their most flourishing days, for some distance e. of Tombigbee r., probably as far as Dallas co., ALLEN WRIGHT — CHOCTAW Ethnically they belong to the Choctaw branch of the Muskhogean family, which included the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Huma, and their allies, and some small tribes which formerly lived along Yazoo r. The dialects of the members of this branch are so closely related that they may be considered as practically identical (Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 53,1884). The earliest notice of these Indians is found in the De Soto narratives for 1540. The giant Tascalusa, whom he met in his march down Coosa valley and carried to Mauvila, was a Choctaw chieftain; and the natives who fought the Spaniards so fiercely at this town belonged to a closely related tribe. When the French, about the beginning of the 18th century, began to settle colonies at Mobile, Biloxi, and New Orleans, the Choctaw came early into friendly relations with them and were their allies in their wars against other Indian tribes. In the French war on the Natchez, in 1730, a large body of Choctaw warriors served under a French officer. They c-ontinued this friendship until the English traders succeeded indrawingover to the English interest some of the e. Choctaw towns. This brought on a war between t
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