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The Chickasaw People (Before)
Little remains in histories today about the Chickasaw, the indigenous Nation that once lived in, and long held, West Tennessee as their own home and hunting ground. Their territory also included much of what are now the states of Mississippi and Alabama, which they shared with the Choctaw (whose language is similar to their own), the Creeks, and others. The Chickasaw chiefs themselves lived in the northern parts of Mississippi, maintained an equilibrium with the Cherokee to their east and other indigenous peoples to the north, sometimes traveling to meet with them and negotiate about developing problems before deciding, if necessary, to go to war. No accurate population count of the Chickasaw was ever made, but based on estimates of their war party sizes by Europeans, their population size can be regarded as being far smaller than those of the surrounding peoples. Nevertheless, they were known to be fierce and effective warriors, who had long been able to hold and manage their territory against unwanted incursions.
The European settlers who officially founded the town of Paris in 1823 were part of the earliest wave of European settlers arriving in the region from eastward. They were English speakers who soon occupied the entire countryside as their own, and they were soon followed b an unceasing, escalating stream of additional settlers who had been granted land ahead of time by the states of North Carolina or Virginia or Tennessee, or who squatted on land in hopes of later claiming it as their own (a process which did eventually play out, with many settlers losing the land they had at first claimed to wealthy powers that be).
The first historical knowledge of the Chickasaw was from the trek made by Hernando de Soto in 1571(?), as well as a few other early contacts. The territory that became the state of Tennessee was first regarded by the thirteen colonies as being part of Virginia, then somehow North Carolina and South Carolina also got involved. Tennessee was created as a state within the United States in 1797, even while the Cherokee Nation continued to maintain Middle and East Tennessee as belonging to themselves, and the Chickasaw still fully controlled West Tennessee.
In 1836, the United States government violently uprooted the Chickasaw from their homeland, and wrote in their history books (as victors do) about having taken the land by right of discovery. Of course, this didn't take place just in Paris, TN, or in the wider region of West Tennessee, but on every inch of what is now the continental United States.
Paris lies at the northeast tip of the area once recognized as belonging to the Chickasaw, but it was of critical importance due to the presence of a rare and precious salt lick. This salt lick lay near Sulphur Wells in the nearby community of Springville. Other indigenous Americans besides the Chickasaw made occasional pilgrimages to the area because of the salt lick.
One vestige that has endured are hauntingly beautiful names such as Mississippi and Tennessee, and the name Chickasaw itself. Paris has a long, rather straight road (Chickasaw Rd), reaching from its center and wandering eastwards for miles towards the Tennessee river. Parts of it have been renamed (Washington St, India Rd), but one can reasonable speculate that it follows a route once traveled by the indigenous people of the region.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Gill, Gillian (1998). Mary Baker Eddy. Perseus. DOI:10.1086/ahr/105.2.551. ISBN 0738200425.
https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.2.551
ISBN 0-7382-0042-5