cause: The French effort to reduce these hostile tribes and gain free passage along the Mississippi culminated in the Chickasaw Wars . Since 1716, the French and Choctaw had united against the Natchez in an overt campaign of destruction.
Effect: The Chickasaw are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. Their language is classified as a member of the Muskogean language family. In the present day, they are organized as the federally recognized Chickasaw Nation.
