Major Hitchcock was assigned to make a survey and report on the Indian removal and conditions in Indian Territory. This is his diary of the time spent in Indian Territory and forms only a small part of the manuscript of his report. Bribery, perjury, and forgery were the methods employed against the Indians which his report shows. That it was with the assent if not the outright connivance of the government is undoubted and was doubtless the reason the report was suppressed. Chapter X concerns the Chickasaw.
Book is very readable.
Hudson, Charles M ., ed. The Southeastern Indians. Prehistory and early history of the inhabitants of the southeastern U.S., colonization by whites and the civilization of a conquered people. Much on the Five Civilized Tribes. Some references to the Chickasaw but more on the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee.