List of placenames of Choctaw origin

This is a list of place names that have arisen from or have equivalents in the Choctaw language or are from the names of people who were themselves Choctaw.

Language derivations

• Louisiana, United States
  • Atchafalaya River and Atchafalaya Swamp ^[1]
  • Bogalusa ^{[2] [3]}
  • Bogue Falaya ^{[2] [4] [5]}
• Oklahoma, United States
  • Bokchito ^[6]
  • Bokoshe ^[7]
  • Chahtah Tamaha ^[8]

Personal name derivations

• Oklahoma, United States
  • Apukshunnubbee District ^{[ citation needed ]}
  • Atoka and Atoka County ^[9]
  • Beavers Bend Resort Park ^{[ citation needed ]}

Equivalents without origin information

• Oklahoma, United States
  • Buck Creek, known in Choctaw as Lapitta Bok ^[10]

Unverified

• Chatawa, Mississippi
• Chickasha, Oklahoma
• Choctaw County, Oklahoma
• Choctaw, Oklahoma
• Eagletown, Oklahoma
• Hochatown, Oklahoma
• Honobia, Oklahoma
• Johns Valley, Oklahoma
• Kosoma, Oklahoma
• Moshulatubbee District
• Nashoba, Oklahoma
• Noxubee County, Mississippi
• Okaloosa County, Florida
• Oklahoma
• Oklahoma City
• Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
• Olney, Oklahoma
• Panola, Oklahoma
• Pocola, Oklahoma
• Ponchatoula, Louisiana
• Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
• Pushmataha District
• Red Oak, Oklahoma
• Skullyville, Oklahoma
• Smithville, Oklahoma
• Talihina, Oklahoma
• Tamaha, Oklahoma
• Tullahoma, Tennessee
• Tushka, Oklahoma
• Tuskahoma, Oklahoma

References

1. Bright (2004), p. 52.
2. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (19 October 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 42. ISBN   978-0-8071-4740-5.
3. Read (1927), pp. 10–11.
4. Bushnell, D.I. (1909). The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Government Printing Office. p.  7.
5. Read (1927), p. 12.
6. Milligan, Keith. "Bokchito". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
7. O'Dell, Larry. "Bokoshe". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
8. Folsom, Joseph P. (1869), "Amendments to the Constitution of the Choctaw Nation", Constitution and laws of the Choctaw nation, New York City: WM. P. LYON & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, Sec. 2, The seat of government shall be permanently fixed at Armstrong Academy, and shall be called and known as Chahta Tamaha, and ....
9. Milligan, James C. "Atoka County". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
10. "More Choctaw Place Names in "Oklahumma"". Iti Fabvssa. Biskinik . District 2. 1 November 2023.

Further reading

• Bright, William (2004). Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   978-0-8061-3598-4. OCLC   53019644. Google URL (pages to 150); Internet Archive URL (requires free registration and Borrow action)
• Read, William A. (1927). Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin. University Bulletin, vol. XIX, no. 2. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.