Photo by Jeffrey Reed.ĭuring the Mississippian era of 800 to 1500 CE, ancestral Choctaw and Chickasaw peoples are believed to have been connected to the polity surrounding Moundville in Alabama. Pre-contact history Mississippian culture The Willoughby Disk, a Mississippian ceremonial stone palette from Moundville Archaeological Park, housed onsite in the Jones Archaeological Museum. They are known for their rapid post-colonial adoption of a written language, transitioning to yeoman farming methods, and having European-American and African-Americans lifestyles enforced in their society.

The History of the Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally from the Southeast of what is currently known as the United States.