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Choctaw Nation

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

In the record

This nation carries the history of Choctaw 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 Choctaw, 1786 (1786)Choctaw at Fort Adams on the Mississippi (1801) (1801)Choctaw at Fort Confederation on the Tombigbee in Choctaw Country (1802) (1802)Choctaw at Hoe-Buckin-too-pa (1803) (1803)Choctaw at Mt. Dexter in Pooshapukanuk, Choctaw Country (1805) (1805)Choctaw at Choctaw Trading House (1816) (1816)Treaty of Doak's Stand with the Choctaw, 1820 (1820)Choctaw at Washington, DC (1825) (1825)Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with the Choctaw, 1830 (1830)Treaty of Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Wichita and others, 1835 (1835)Treaty of Doaksville with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1837 (1837)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)Land takenLand of the Choctaw in Mississippi, ceded 1820 (area 115) (1820)Land of the Choctaw in Arkansas, ceded 1825 (area 122) (1825)Land of the Choctaw in Alabama and Mississippi, ceded 1830 (area 156) (1830)Land of the Choctaw in Alabama, ceded 1830 (area 157) (1830)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 Choctaw in Mississippi, ceded 1801 (area 43) (1801)Land of the Choctaw in Alabama and Mississippi, ceded 1802 (area 46) (1802)Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, ceded 1866 (area 485) (1866)Land of the Choctaw in Alabama and Mississippi, ceded 1805 (area 61) (1805)Land of the Choctaw in Alabama and Mississippi, ceded 1816 (area 82) (1816)Promises brokenDancing Rabbit Creek 1830: first removal treaty under the Indian Removal Act (1831)Curtis 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 courtCarpenter v. Shaw (1930)Choctaw Nation v. United States (1886)McGirt 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.

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Land recorded as ceded

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

Choctaw About 52 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty or agreement36 million
  • Treaty under documented pressure5 million
  • Removal treaty11 million

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

12 cessions. Follow Choctaw 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. federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
    The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
  3. choctawnation.com/about/language/unclassified
    Chahta Anumpuli! (Speak Choctaw!)
  4. federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2026/01/30/2026-01899.htmlprimary record
    The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
  5. 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).
Research notes

Name inferred from "Choctaw Nation v. United States"; confirm.

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