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The Chickasaw Nation

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Official name
The Chickasaw Nation
Recorded status
Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)

In the record

This nation carries the history of Chickasaw and Five Tribes (Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Muscogee (Creek); Seminole) in the treaty record.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesTreaty of Hopewell with the Chickasaw, 1786 (1786)Chickasaw at Chickasaw Bluffs (1801) (1801)Chickasaw at Chickasaw Country (1805) (1805)Chickasaw at Chickasaw Council House (1816) (1816)Treaty with the Chickasaw (Jackson Purchase), 1818 (1818)Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the Chickasaw, 1832 (1832)Chickasaw at Washington, DC (1834) (1834)Treaty of Doaksville with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1837 (1837)Chickasaw at Washington, DC (1852) (1852)Choctaw and Chickasaw at Doaksville, Near Fort Towson, Choctaw Country (1854) (1854)Choctaw and Chickasaw at Washington, DC (1855) (1855)Reconstruction Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1866 (1866)Franklin Treaty with the Chickasaw, 1830 (unratified) (1830)Land takenLand of the Chickasaw in Kentucky and Tennessee, ceded 1818 (area 100) (1818)Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, ceded 1832 (area 178) (1832)Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, recorded 1855 (area 367) (1855)Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, recorded 1855 (area 368) (1855)Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, ceded 1866 (area 485) (1866)Land of the Chickasaw in Tennessee, ceded 1805 (area 55) (1805)Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, ceded 1816 (area 80) (1816)Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, ceded 1816 (area 81) (1816)Promises brokenCurtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted (1898)McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020): the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was never disestablished (1898)The General Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887 and the loss of the communal land base (1887)In courtMcGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Land recorded as ceded

This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:

Chickasaw About 43 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty or agreement33 million
  • Treaty under documented pressure3 million
  • Removal treaty6 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

8 cessions. Follow Chickasaw through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

Native legal and land defense, nationally

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Connections

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Carries the treaty history of 2

Sources

  1. fivecivilizedtribes.org/unclassified
    Five Civilized Tribes Cherokee Cherokee History ... Chickasaw Chickasaw History ... Choctaw ... Muscogee ... Seminole Seminole History
  2. okhistory.org/publications/enc/entryunclassified
    The history of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma began in 1818 when tribal leaders signed the Treaty of Old Town
  3. Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
    Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
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