Adair, James:  The History of the American Indians, London: Printed for E.C. Dilly, 1775.
Adair was well acquainted with the Chickasaws as he traded with them for years and was known as the English Chickasaw. He believed that the Indians were Jews. An extensive account of the Chickasaws is found on pages. 352-73.

Adair, James:  Adair's History of the American Indians. Ed. Samuel Cole Williams. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1930, Reprint, Nashville: National Society of Colonial Dames, 1953. Same as above. Includes a long note on the Chickasaw Horse.

Agnew, Brad:  Ft. Gibson, Terminal on the Trail of the Tears, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1980.
A history of this important outpost in Indian Territory. Most of the Chickasaw did not end their journey here as it was a long way from their lands. However, there was some interaction.

Alvin M. Joseph,  Jr.:  American Heritage Book of Indians. , ed. Narrative by William Brandon. New York: American Heritage/Bonanza Books, 1982.
A history of the American Indians by the editors of American Heritage periodical. Divided into sections by location. The chapter "The Dispossessed" is about the Five Civilized Tribes. Includes the Southern Frontier and the Trail of Tears. Lavishly illustrated with photos.

American Indian Reader, Education. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1972.  A collection of essays by different authors on various aspects of Indian education. Brewton Berry's "Histories of Indian Education" includes Chickasaw education and mentions Bloomfield.

Ashcraft, Allan C:  Confederate Indian Department Conditions in August, 1864. Chronicles of Oklahoma. 41, No. 3 (1963) 270-85.
"Confederate authorities felt obligated to safeguard the well-being of the tribes furnishing military units" (270). The actual supervision was done by the Assistant Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The article concerns Colonel Lee's report as he prepared to transfer to another station.

Bailey, Minnie Elizabeth Thomas:  "Reconstruction in Indian Territory, 1865-1877." Diss. Oklahoma State University, 1987.
Basis of the following work. Covers the same information but in thesis format.

Baird, W. David:  The Chickasaw People. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series. 1974.
Begins with the migration story. Brief but clear and factual history. Much about present improvement programs. Illustrated with photos including Overton James, TeAta (Mary Thompson), Georgia Brown, Abijah Colbert, Ah-it-To-Tubby, Nelson Chigley. Maps, one showing counties in the old Chickasaw Nation.

Barbour, Jeannie; Cobb-Greetham, Amanda; Hogan, Linda: Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable. Ada: Chickasaw Press. 2007.

Bartram, William: William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians. Lincoln; University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Brown:  "The Dawes Commission." Chronicles of Oklahoma 9. No. 1 (1931), 71-105.
The Dawes Act of 1887 provided for the first allotment of Indian lands. In 1892 the Commission was formed to deal with the Five Civilized Tribes. Whether right or wrong, the Commission put the policy to work efficiently.

Catlin, George: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians. Mineola, NY. Dover Publications.

Chickasaw Nation. Constitution:
Constitution, Laws and Treaties of the Chickasaw Nation. Made and enacted by the Chickasaw Legislature. Atoka, I. T.: Indian Citizen Print., 1890.

Chickasaw Nation. Constitution:  Chikasha okla i kunstitushun micha 1 nan ulhpisa, Chikasha okla i nan apesa tok mak oke. [New York: 1873.]

Cohen, Felix:  Handbook of Federal Indian Law. with reference tables and index. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1942. Reprint: Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 1972. Charlottesville: Mitchie, Bobbs-Merrill, 1982.
A compilation of the laws regarding American Indians.

Cotterill, R.S.: The Southern Indians.

Cozart, Toccoa:  "Indian 'Adam and Eve' -- Pretty Chickasaw Legend." American Indian. No. 10 (1928), 2.
Charming piece of Chickasaw folklore in which lonely first man follows a mockingbird singing of love up into the high mountains and finds first woman whom he persuades to follow him down to the valley and establish a home.

Debo, Angie:  And Still the Waters Run. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940: New York: Gordian Press, 1966; Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1972 Princeton Paperbacks.
The early settlement wars with the Indians were followed by legal displacement, despoliation by legislative enactment, lease, mortgage and land sharking, which occurred most rapidly among the Five Civilized Tribes. This is a history of the policy of "destroying the Indians' institutions and suppressing the traits that once made them strong" (394).

Debo, Angie:  The Road to Disappearance. Civilization of the American Indian, 22. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.
Previous to this work there was no connected history of the great Muskogees. Dr. Debo has assembled information from all the scattered sources to give a complete history of the Creek Confederacy from their early beginnings to the obliteration of the tribe as such, though not the people themselves. Because they were neighbors and had close relations with the Chickasaws, much of what occurred with the Creeks also happened to them. Their history is often intertwined.

Foreman, Carolyn T:  The Five Civilized Tribes. Civilization of the American Indian, S. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1934.
This history is about the adjustment and rebuilding of the civilization of the five tribes after the devastation of their forcible removal. This interlude from 1830 to the Civil War was one of relative peace in which they could make progress in government, culture and economics.

Foreman, Carolyn T:  Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Civilization of the American Indian, 2. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.
A detailed account of the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes--each tribe taken separately. Book 3, pp. 192-226, describes the Chickasaw removal. Includes maps.

Fundaburk, Emma Lila; Fundaburk Foreman, Mary Douglass: Sun Circles and Human Hands. Tuscaloosa, AL. University Alabama Press. 2001.

Gibson, Arrell Morgan:  The Chickasaws. Civilization of the American Indian, 109. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
The most recent comprehensive history of the Chickasaw with many illustrations and a good bibliography. It does not contain much more than Malone's The Chickasaw Nation.

Green, Richard: Chickasaw Lives: Exploration in Tribal History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Green, Richard:  TeAta: Chickasaw Storyteller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

Hastain, E., comp.:  Index to Choctaw-Chickasaw Deeds and Allotments.... Muskogee: E. Hastain, 1908. Supplement: Muskogee: The author, 1910.
Gives name, land description and blood.

Hitchcock, Ethan Allan:  A Traveler in Indian Territory, the Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Late Major in the U.S. Army, ed. by Grant Foreman. Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1930.
Major Hitchcock was assigned to make a survey and report on the Indian removal and conditions in Indian Territory. This is his diary of the time spent in Indian Territory and forms only a small part of the manuscript of his report. Bribery, perjury, and forgery were the methods employed against the Indians which his report shows. That it was with the assent if not the outright connivance of the government is undoubted and was doubtless the reason the report was suppressed. Chapter X concerns the Chickasaw. Book is very readable.

Hudson, Charles M., ed.:  The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
Prehistory and early history of the inhabitants of the southeastern U.S., colonization by whites and the civilization of a conquered people. Much on the Five Civilized Tribes. Some references to the Chickasaw but more on the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee. Illustrated with photos. Includes bibliography.

James, Parthenia Louise:  "Reconstruction in the Chickasaw Nation: The Freedman Problem." Chronicles of Oklahoma, 45, No 1(1967), 44-57.
The freedman were one of the big problems in the Chickasaw Nation. The treaty specified that they be given citizenship or the U.S. government would remove them. The Chickasaw Nation asked to have them removed. Neither was ever done and both sides wished a different solution.

Johnston, Neil R:  The Chickasaw Rancher, Stillwater: Redlands Press, 1961.
Biography of Montford Johnson, Chickasaw mixed blood who ranched in the Nation from 1861 to 1896. Good picture of life in the Chickasaw Nation, as well as ranching in Indian Territory.

Jordan, H. Glenn:  Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma." Chronicles of Oklahoma, 54, No. 3 (1976), 370-92.
A history of the Western History collection at the O.U. Library and a description of the materials--manuscripts, microform, printed books, photos, etc., about the American west and particularly Oklahoma and the American Indian. This description is previous to the consolidation of the collection and the movement to Monnet Hall.

Kappler, Charles C:  Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1904-1979. 7 Vols.
Vols. 1 and 2 were first published as Sen. Doc. 452, 57th Congress 1st Session. Second Edition was issued as Senate Document 319, 58th Congress 2nd Session.
Volume 3 was issued as Senate Document 719, 62nd Congress 2nd Session Volume 4 issued as Senator Document 53, 70th Congress 1st Session Volume 5 issued as Senate Document 194, 76th Congress 3rd Session, Volume 2 Treaties, the rest laws.
A compilation of the treaties, laws and executive orders relating to Indian affairs from the beginning of the republic to the present.

Lambert, Paul: Never Give Up! The Life of Pearl Carter Scott. Ada: Chickasaw Press. 2009.

Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr.:  The Chickasaw Freedman: A People Without a Country. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 54. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
When the Chickasaw slaves were freed at the close of the Civil War, the Chickasaw Nation was given the choice of giving the freedman citizenship or the U.S. Government would remove them. Neither was done and they were without civil rights until statehood.

Lewis, Barry R.: Kentucky Archaeology. Lexington-Fayette. The University Press of Kentucky. 1996.

Lewis, Barry R.; Stout, Charles: Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces. Tuscaloosa, AL. University Alabama Press. 1998.

Malcolm, John:  "Colbert Ferry on the Red River, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, Recollections of John Malcom." Ed. by William B. Morrison. Chronicles of Oklahoma., 16, No. 3 (1938), 302-04.
John Malcom was the ferryman for Colbert. Includes photos of John Malcolm, B. F. Colbert, B. F. Colbert's home, John Rich, Maupin, W. B. Maupin, Helen Maupin. Interesting reading.

Malone, James Henry:  The Chickasaw Nation, a Short Sketch of a Noble People... Louisville, KY: J.P. Morton, 1922.
This was the history of the Chickasaws up to Gibson's. A comprehensive history according to known facts at date. Begins with De Soto's Narrative. Illustrations, map and bibliography in front of volume. The first six chapters were printed for private distribution in 1919.

Morris, John W., ed.:  Ghost Towns of Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.
Stories of some of the towns in Oklahoma that are dead or dying. Arranged in alphabetical order, with illustrations of the town and plat, where available. Those in the Chickasaw Nation include Boggy Depot, Bromide, Center, Cherokee Town, Cornish, Sugden and Sulphur Springs.

Morrison, William B:  Military Posts and Camps in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City: Harlow, 1936.
The history of the military posts is the story of the frontier and they played a very important part in the history of Oklahoma. An article is included on each of the forts in the state, arranged in chronological order. The two in the Chickasaw Nation are Fort Arbuckle, pages 93-103, and Fort Washita, pages 81-92.

Munro, Pamela; Willmond, Catherine: Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

O'Beirne, Harry F., and E.S. O'Beirne:  Leaders and leading men of Indian Territory, Volume 1 Chicago: American Publishers Association, 1891.
An attempt to record the most illustrious of the Native Americans, not just leading men of Indian Territory. Volume 1 is on the Chickasaws and Choctaws. Chickasaw section, pages 209-319. Gives a short history of the tribe and portraits and biographies of many leading Chickasaws. Biographies are laudatory. Not in alphabetical order. No Index. There are pictures of the Council House, male and female academies, Wapanucka. Poor photo prints.

Otis, Delos Sackett:  The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands. Ed, by Francis Paul Prucha. Civilization of the American Indian, 123. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
Originally published in 1934 in Readjustment of Indian Affairs (Hearings on H. R. 7902 before the House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs), Pt. 9, pages 428-89, under title: History of the Allotment Policy.

The aim of the Dawes Act was to make the Indian an independent farmer, which had been the aim of white pressures all along. This is a history of the allotment policy from all the obtainable data. From knowing the Indian civilization, that the policy did not work is "not to be wondered at."

Perdue, Theda: Nations Remembered. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1993.

Perry Mrs. A. E.:  "More Choctaw and Chickasaw History." Sturm's, 1, No. 3 (1905), 92-96.
Legend of Chatah and Chickasah again. More Choctaw than Chickasaw history.

Perry, Robert J.: Life With the Little People. Greenfield Center, NY. Greenfield Review Press. (July 1998).

Peyser, Joseph L:  "The Chickasaw Wars of 1736 and 1740: French Military Drawings and Plans Document the Struggle for the Lower Mississippi." Journal of MIssissippi History, 44, No. 1 (1982), 1-25.
The Chickasaws defeated the French in 1736 on the Tombigbee. These defeats called for seige plans and drawings by the French military for use in Bienville's campaign against the Chickasaw in 1740. This is a translation of the documents and traces the events leading up to the French campaign against the Chickasaw.

Phelps, Dawson A:  "Colbert Ferry and Selected Documents." Alabama History Quarterly, 25, No. 3/4 (163), 203-26.
History of and excerpts from documents concerning the Indians on the Tennessee River between Muscle Shoals and Bear Creek, Colbert's Ferry was across the Tennessee River at Bear Creek.

Phelps, Dawson A:  "The Natchez Trace: Indian Trail to Parkway." Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 21, No. 3 (1632), 203-18.
The original Natchez Trace was a trail, later road, from Natchez, overland to Nashville. One of the variants was the Chickasaw trace. This is the story of the historic road that became the Natchez Trace Parkway. Illustrated with photos.

Pontotoc County Historical and Genealogical Society:  History of Pontotoc County. Ada, Oklahoma: The Society, 1976.
Early history is that of Choctaws and Chickasaws. Many photos. Bibliography at end of each chapter.

Prucha, Francis Paul:  Indian Peace Medals in American History, Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971; Lincoln; University of Nebraska Press, 1971.
Silver medals as tokens of friendship, presented to indian chiefs, were important in American Indian Policy. This volume gives the history of each medal and a picture, if available. Those presented to the Chickasaws are included.

Roger, J. Daniel; Smith, Bruce D.: Mississippian Communities and Households. Tuscaloosa, AL. University Alabama Press 1995.

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe:  Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge, Containing all the Original Papers Laid before Congress Respecting the History, Antiquities, Language, Ethnology, Pictographs, Rites, Superstitions and Mythology of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippcott, 1860-1868. 6 Volumes.
Includes all the original documents put before Congress for their information in the Indian question. Illustrated with plates. A magnificent work.

Summers, Cecil Lamar:  Chief Tishomingo: A history of the Chickasaw Indians and Some Historical Events of their Era. 1737-1839. American Revolution Centennial Ed. luka, MS: N.p., [1974]
Includes history, legends, Tishomingo, De Soto, the Colberts, Piomingo, Cyrus Harris, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Reelfoot Lake and Sam Dale, James Bowie, outlaws, treaties and more. Illustrated with photos.

Swanton, John Reed:  "Aboriginal Culture of the Southeast." Bureau of American Ethnology. Forty second Annual Report, 1924-25. Washington: GPO, 1928.
A most important work. Gives the physical and linguistic characteristics of the various groups of southeastern Indians. Points out the culture area are not so easily defined as all in the area show similarities. Discusses social divisions, dwellings, personal appearances, canoes, agriculture, death rites and more.

Swanton, John Reed:  "The Indians of the Southeastern United States." Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 137. Washington: GPO, 1946.
Entire Volume on southeastern Indians. Sketches of each tribe and their population, in alphabetical order, Chickasaw history, pages 116-119. Plate 14, figures 1 and 2, Chickasaws. Plate 15, Council House at Tishomingo. Many References to the Chickasaw in discussing the southeastern culture.

Swanton, John Reed:  "Social and Religious Beliefs and Usages of the Chickasaw Indians." Bureau of American Ethnology, Forty Fourth Annual Report, 1926-17, Washington: GPO, 1926, pages 169-263.
Swanton attempts a comprehensive account of the Chickasaws as he had done with the Creeks. Includes migration legend, social organization, customs, property rights, crime and punishment, and much more.

Te Ata:  Indian Tales. New York: I.W. Singer, 1968.
Juvenile stories told by a noted Chickasaw story teller; however, the three stories are not Chickasaw. There is one each Creek, Seminole and Cherokee.

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs:  Messages from the President of the U.S., Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872. Information Relative to the Recent Affray at the Court House in Goingsnake, Indian Territory. Washington: GPO, 1872.

U. S. Congress:  Cessions of Land by Indians, 1789-1812. Pt, A: Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws. 13th Congress 1st. Session Indian Affairs 138, 1813.

Vogel, Virgil: American Indian Medicine. Civilization of the American Indian, 95. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
This book is less about the ritual curing of disease and more about botanical remedies and observation by whites of Indian treatment of disease. Some discussion of practices of individual tribes including the Chickasaw.

Wright, Muriel H: "The Great Seal of the Chickasaw Nation." Chronicles of Oklahoma, 34, No. 4 (1956), 388-91.
The seal appears in color on the cover of the issue. This is a history of the seal and what it meant to the Chickasaw Nation. Includes four leaves of plates of people and places in the Chickasaw Nation: home of Governor Cyrus Harris: home of Governor Douglas H. Johnston; Douglas H. Johnston; Cyrus Harris: Dougherty (Winchester) Colbert; Edmond Pickens; members of the last legislature of the Chickasaw Nation, 1907; last capitol, at Tishomingo, 1898, and First Chickasaw Capitol, 1858.

Wright, Muriel H:  A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.
A comprehensive guide to the Indians of Oklahoma, one third of the Indians in the United States. Arranged alphabetically by tribe, the article about each gives derivation of the name, present location, numbers (at publication date), government and organization, contemporary life and culture and , ceremonies and public dances; illustrated with photos.