Nation
Five Tribes (Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Muscogee (Creek); Seminole) · five tribes · Five Civilized TribesFive Tribes (Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Muscogee (Creek); Seminole)
- Region
- Southeast to Indian Territory
In the record
The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Five Tribes (Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Muscogee (Creek); Seminole): The General Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887 and the loss of the communal land base and Curtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted.
Today, Cherokee Nation, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 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.
Names
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Names in treaties and records
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Allied land trust Funder/partner in several tribal land returns Website
- Trust for Public Land (TPL) Allied land trust Land conservation Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Present-day governments that carry this history 5
Organizations that work with this nation 4
Named in 2
Sources
- fivecivilizedtribes.org/unclassified
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes Quarterly Meeting
Research notes
Collective label used in V044 and McGirt-line cases. Not a polity.
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- Notes
- Context record, not a treaty