n., pl., Choctaw, or -taws.
- A Native American people formerly inhabiting central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, with present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
- A member of this people.
- The Muskogean language of the Choctaw.
[Choctaw Chahta.]
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