Choctaw

In the record

The United States made 14 treaties and agreements that name Choctaw as a party, from Treaty of Hopewell with the Choctaw, 1786 to Reconstruction Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1866.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 12 cessions of land from Choctaw: about 52 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 8 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Choctaw in Alabama and Mississippi, ceded 1830 (area 156), about 11 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with the Choctaw, 1830.

The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises involving Choctaw: Dancing Rabbit Creek 1830: first removal treaty under the Indian Removal Act, 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. 3 court cases turned on their rights: Choctaw Nation v. United States, Carpenter v. Shaw and McGirt v. Oklahoma.

Today, Choctaw Nation, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians and Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians carry 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.