Choctaw
noun/ˈtʃɒktɔː/
/ˈtʃɔːktɔː/
(plural Choctaw, Choctaws)
- a member of a native North American people who lived by farming, mostly in an area that became the state of Mississippi. They were moved west by the US government in 1832 and most of them now live in Oklahoma.
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