Chickasaw

In the record

The United States made 13 treaties and agreements that name Chickasaw as a party, from Treaty of Hopewell with the Chickasaw, 1786 to Reconstruction Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1866.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 8 cessions of land from Chickasaw between 1805 and 1866: about 43 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 6 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Chickasaw in Kentucky and Tennessee, ceded 1818 (area 100), about 8.0 million acres, ceded under Treaty with the Chickasaw (Jackson Purchase), 1818.

The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Chickasaw: Curtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted and McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020): the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was never disestablished. One court case turned on its rights: McGirt v. Oklahoma.

Today, The Chickasaw Nation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.

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.