Broadwell G.A. A Choctaw reference grammar

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 375 p. — ISBN 978-0-8032- 13 15-9.Choctaw is a Muskogean language originally spoken in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. The majority of the Choctaw tribe was forcibly relocatedto Oklahoma between 1831 and 1833, but a substantial number resisted removal and remained in Mississippi. There are now four main groups of Choctaw speakers: Mississippi Choctaws, Oklahoma Choctaws, Louisiana Choctaws, and Mississippi Choctaws of Oklahoma.
In total there are probably between 9,000 and 11,000 speakers of Choctaw. The 1990 United States census estimated 9,211 for Choctaw and Chickasaw together1 This figure may be somewhat too low, for reasons discussed by Broadwell (1995).