Chickasaw Republic

  

Chickasaw Continental Socialist Republic
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Demonym	Chickasaw
Capital (and largest city)	Tawanna City
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The Chickasaw Republic, officially know as Chickasaw Continental Socialist Republic (Chickasaw CSR) also known as Continental Chickasaw is one the constituent republics of the United Commonwealth. Established on 2 March 1924, three years after the official declaration of Union of Continental States, the Chickasaw people were granted a national status during the establishment of the Indigenous Republics, which also include the Cherokee Republic, the Choctaw Republic, the Seminole Republic and Muscogee Republic. The capital and largest city of the Chickasaw Republic is Tawanna City. It is currently governed by the Continentalist Party of the Chickasaw Nation (CPCN) as a unitary single-party socialist republic.

Although the exact origin of the Chickasaw is unknown, some scholars believe that the Chickasaw and Choctaw are two branches of what remains of the Plaquemine culture and other cultures that inhabited the Lower Mississippi Valley region for thousands of years. During prehistoric times, this ancestral group is believed to have migrated from west of the Mississippi River and evolved from moundbuilders. The fall of the Moundville Archaeological Site chiefdom, of the Tombigbee Valley, led to the establishment of proto-Chickasaw settlements in the upper Yazoo River and Pearl River valleys in what is now present day Mississippi. According to a different Chickasaw story, their people are said to have arose at the earthen mound Nanih Waiya, built by the Woodland tribes. The great mound is also sacred to the Choctaw, who have an arrival story similar to that told by the Chickasaw. The mound itself predates the formation of both the Chickasaw and Choctaw as ethnic groups and is a protected landmark.

The Chickasaw made first contact with the Spanish explorer Hernado De Soto in 1540, it wasn't untill the foundation of Carolina in 1670 was there a prolonged interaction with Europeans. After the American Revolutionary War, the natives treatment partially improved under George Washington who curbed white settlements. Henry Knox proposed the cultural transformation of the Native Americans, targeting several tribes in the southeast United States. Through the 18th and 19th centuries the Chickasaw gradually began adopting European practices. In 1832 the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek deprived the Chickasaw of self governance and were forcefully removed from northern Mississippi in 1837 enduring the Trail of Tears. More than 500 Chickasaw died of dysentery and smallpox. In 1861 the Chickasaw tribal government aligned itself with the Confederate States of America and again in 1866 during the Confederate Uprising. During the War of Contingency the Chickasaw along with the other Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma attempted to secede from Brazoria. In 1868 the Kiowa Province was placed under the control of the central government and tribe's right to self governance was revoked. After the Continental Revolutionary War, the Continentalist forces established provisional tribal autonomous states as a means to correct the cultural injustices committed against the indigenous Americans. Proclaimed on 2 March 1924 the Chickasaw Republic was proclaimed.

The Chickasaw Republic is situated in the northern section of the Mississippi Delta, part of the larger Mississippi Alluvial Plain, bordering the Mississippi River and encompassing the Yazoo River and Hatchie River. The Tennessee River forms the republic's eastern border. With a surface area of 398 sq kilometres, Sardis Lake is the republic's largest body of water and is a major source of electrical power for the Chickasaw nation. During the 1930s and 1940s the Continental government installed a series of levees 8 miles west of the Mississippi River as an effort to control flooding within the delta. This 8 mile wide zone between the river and the levees, known as the Chickasaw River Preserves, are a series of protected lands maintained by both the Chickasaw and Continental governments. With an abundance of water and some of the most fertile soil in the world and is the largest agricultural producer among the Indigenous Republics. It is one of the worlds leading producers of cotton, sugar cane and rice.