By Jesse O McKee
Find out about the Choctaw Indians whose present inhabitants comprise the state of Oklahoma and the Mississippi band of Choctaw. Choctaw origins -- Europeans and altering methods -- The lack of the place of origin -- fight and prosperity -- the top of a kingdom -- A divided humans maintains -- Into the twenty-first century
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S. government began to enter into a series of treaties with the southern Indians. S. government between 1786 and 1830. S. S. citizen living within the territory of the Choctaws was subject to tribal jurisdiction. S. government. They feared that American settlers would soon move westward into the Choctaw domain and, from there, eventually migrate into Spanish-owned lands west of the Mississippi River. To protect their interests, the Spanish established forts on the western and eastern borders of Choctaw land.
Tragedy struck the delegation when Chief Pushmataha died from pneumonia in Washington on Christmas Eve. Chief Apukshunnubbee had been killed en route to Washington as a result of a fall from a cliff. Chief Moshulatubbee, therefore, was the only district chief left in the delegation when the negotiations were concluded. On January 20, 1825, Chief Moshulatubbee and Secretary of War John Calhoun signed the Treaty of 1825 (also called the Treaty of Washington City). The treaty redefined the eastern boundary of the Choctaw land in the newly designated Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) as a line extending from the Arkansas River near Fort Smith due south to the Red River, which is approximately the boundary between Arkansas and Oklahoma today.
The treaty stated that any Choctaw who killed a Frenchman or invited an Englishman to a Choctaw village would be put to death. ” The Grandpré Treaty helped fuel the Choctaws’ growing disillusionment with their French allies. In 1754, angry because the French had stopped their regular distribution of gifts to the tribe, the Choctaws threatened to enter into an allegiance with the English. Their demands received little attention, however, because the French were occupied with battling the English in the French and Indian War, which had erupted to the east in the same year.