Quotes About Chickasaws

153 In return for their allegiance, the Crown kept the Chickasaws well supplied with guns and ammunition, which they used to hunt game and ward off enemies. This alliance continued during the American Revolution; throughout the war, British agents boasted of the "friendly disposition" of their faithful allies, the Chickasaws.154

The drinking continued, Chickasaw warriors failed to rally to the king's cause, and men who might have been killed in battle died by the bottle instead. On a different level, the failure of Chickasaws to come through for the British can be explained by simple geography: they were not in the direct line of fire.

The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.