Note 27 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 2)

Sometimes Chakchiuma or, in Choctaw, Shakchi-humma (red crawfish). Cushman says they were overbearing and exterminated as a tribe by the Chickasaws and Choctaws about the year 1721. History of the Indians, 242. But the statement is disproved by the report of Perier to Maurepas, 1733, of a battle between the Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, on the one side, and the Chakchiumas on the other. Rowland and Sanders, Mississippi Provincial Arch., I, 166, 281, 340. See also, Swanton, Lower Tribes, 29; Gatschet Migration Legend, 98; and Hodge, Handbook, 231. They are referred to later by Adair.