Whipping Tree

Preserved inside the Chickasaw Council House Museum in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, the whipping tree was used to punished criminal offenders.  An offender was tied to the whipping tree and whipped with a long flexible tree branch.

Execution Punishment
(Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole)

In some tribes a convicted murderer was given one year from date of sentence to put his affairs in order. When time was up he returned with the person he had chosen to put a bullet through his head (usually his closest friend or member of his family). There was never a known case in which the condemned man failed to return.

Cleanliness

Cleanliness was Chickasaw law and failure to bathe regularly, even if ice was on water, was blasphemy. Keeping self and home clean was The Tribe's religious and civil duty. By taking a bath in the morning, all impurities of the previous day were purged.  The Chickasaws punished a woman who was slovenly with self or house by scratching her on the arms and legs with dried snake teeth.