Chickasaw citizens interested in a unique cultural experience in the historic Chickasaw Homelands have until Sept. 5 to apply for “History of the Chickasaws on the Natchez Trace.”

This weeklong trip will give citizens opportunities to perform research and meet archaeological experts on the Chickasaw Homelands, while discovering personal connections to their ancestral lands.

For an application and more information, contact the department of culture and humanities at (580) 436-7258.

Save the Date: Join us for the 2015 Chickasaw Nation Annual Meeting and Festival beginning Sept. 25.

The weeklong celebration culminates with Gov. Anoatubby’s State of the Nation Address on Saturday, Oct. 3, in Tishomingo. ‪#‎ChickasawFestival‬

The Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m., Thursday, August 27, 2015, at the Lee County Library, 219 North Madison, Tupelo, MS. The speaker will be Julian Prince, Sr., EdD of Tupelo, author of the historical novel, "Ackia, The Battle to save the Chickasaw Nation". The public is invited to this free program.

Dr. Prince will review and provide the historical details behind "Ackia" . He will elaborate on the events around the elaborate French plan to crush the Chickasaws and gain a free flow of Mississippi River traffic between its colonies. He will explain how the Ackia plan derailed with the battle Ogoula Tchetoka (increasingly pronounced as "Okla Chuh-TOKE-luh"). The northern French contingent attacked a Chickasaw peace village (in today's Tupelo metro) despite the southern army's delayed arrival, and suffered a disastrous defeat.

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