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The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek was a treaty signed on October 20, 1832 by representatives of the United States and the Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation assembled at the National Council House on Pontotoc Creek in Pontotoc, Mississippi. The treaty ceded the 6,283,804 million acres of the remaining Chickasaw homeland in Mississippi in return for ...
Pontotoc: A plantation 2: Pontotoc Historic District: Pontotoc Historic District: October 29, 1993 : Roughly, along Main and Liberty Sts. between Reynolds and 8th Sts. Pontotoc: 3: Treaty of Pontotoc Site: July 27, 1973
Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.” A section of the city largely along Main Street and Liberty Street has been designated the Pontotoc Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5] The Treaty of Pontotoc Site is also listed on the National Register. [6]
This treaty promised 25 cents per acre for their land, less than half of what the government had initially promised. In a long letter to President Andrew Jackson in November 1832, Colbert noted the many complaints the chiefs had with the resulting Treaty of Pontotoc Creek. He restated their position, and noted their belief that General Coffee ...
Under two treaties, the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek ratified in 1833 and the Treaty of Washington signed in 1834, terms under which lands would be allotted were agreed. [ 37 ] Richard Green, a historian who focuses on Chickasaw history, [ 38 ] noted that by the time the appeal was being heard in 1837, the judges were aware of the removal treaties ...
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October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo) and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians sign the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal ...
[2]: 131 Theodore was possibly one of the 30 prisoners taken from the tribal town of Littafuchee, near Big Canoe Creek, in present-day St. Clair County, Alabama. [3]: 36 [4]: 278 He was described as a "pet" or playmate for Andrew Jackson Jr., who was then about five years old.