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The Treaty of Doak's Stand (7 Stat. 210, also known as Treaty with the Choctaw) was signed on October 18, 1820 (proclaimed and legally binding on January 8, 1821) between the United States and the Choctaw Indian tribe. The Treaty of Doak's Stand was the seventh of nine major treaties that were ratified from the period from 1786 through 1866 ...
Doak's Stand: 1820: United States: Natchez Trace, Choctaw Nation (Mississippi) Exchanged cession in Mississippi for parcel in Arkansas and prepare the Choctaws to become citizens of the United States: 5,169,788 acres (20,921.39 km 2) Washington City: 1825: United States: Washington, D.C. Exchanged Arkansas land for Oklahoma parcel: 2,000,000 ...
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Pushmataha negotiated two more land-cession treaties with the United States. While the treaty of October 24, 1816, was counted of little loss, composed mainly of hunted-out grounds, the Treaty of Doak's Stand (signed October 18, 1820) was highly contentious. European-American settlement was encroaching on core lands of the Choctaw.
Although settlers continued to move into the area, the Treaty of Doak's Stand (October 18, 1820) was about to change Miller County. After Doak's Stand, Choctaws had already been moving into the area of Arkansas Territory, but a treaty signed January 20, 1825, ceded the land west of a line "one hundred paces east of Fort Smith, and running thence, due south, to Red river" to them in exchange ...
Pitchlynn served as an interpreter at the Treaty of Fort Confederation and the Treaty of Mount Dexter and was present at the signings of the Treaty of Doak's Stand and Treaty of Washington City. [1] Pitchlynn married twice. About 1780 he married Rhoda Folsom, an Anglo-American. Due to his work, they lived within the Choctaw Nation. [2]
Some Choctaw had started moving into the region from Mississippi since the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820. Per a treaty signed by the United States on January 20, 1825, with the Choctaw, the land west of a line "one hundred paces east of Fort Smith, and running thence, due south, to Red river" was ceded to the Choctaw. The residents west of the ...
The Treaty of Mount Dexter, signed in 1805, sold away more than four million acres of Choctaw land in southeastern Mississippi and parts of Alabama; this angered Jefferson because he wanted more valuable lands along the Mississippi River. Dinsmoor also witnessed the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens of 1816 and the Treaty of Doak's Stand of 1820. By ...