If history is the story of what people have done, then American history began thousands of years ago, and by far most of it is that of Indian peoples and their ancestors before...
The Choctaw Indians entered into a long alliance with the French, ca. 1700. The Choctaws, engaged in a long war with the Chickasaws, used the alliance to shape French policy in Franco-Indian relations and in decisions about settlement. The French benefited from the alliance when the Choctaws helped defeat the Natchez, who had resisted French incursion.