USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -1830 The Indian Removal Act fostered by President Jackson passed Congress. The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek stipulated the removal of Choctaws from Mississippi. 1831 The Choctaw Nation began removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory, becoming the first of the Five Tribes to be forcibly removed.

Detailed explanation-2: -After heated debate, President Andrew Jackson and the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, forcing the Choctaw and other tribes, to relinquish their homelands completely, and move westward. The act passed the House in May 1830, by only five votes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is the largest of the three federally recognized bands of Choctaws and is the third largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. The Choctaw Nation’s reservation covers nearly 11, 000 square miles in southeastern Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Choctaws, Mississippi’s largest Indian group, were the first southeastern Indians to accept removal with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in September 1830. The treaty provided that the Choctaws would receive land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for the remaining Choctaw lands in Mississippi.