Atkinson James R. Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal

University of Alabama Press, 2003. — 380 p.A comprehensive history of the Chickasaw tribe, whose territory, before they were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, was located east of the Mississippi river. The author traces their history as far back as documentation and archaeology allow and historicizes from a native viewpoint.