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Treaty of Washington also known as the Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw (11 Stat. 611) was a treaty conducted in on June 22, 1855, in Washington, DC between the United States, the Choctaws and the Chickasaws. The treaty was ratified on February 21, 1856, and proclaimed by the President on March 4, 1856.
By the early 19th century pressure from U.S. southern states, like Georgia, encouraged the procurement of Native American lands. The Treaty of Fort Adams was the first in a series of treaties that ceded Choctaw lands. The Choctaws were relocated from their homeland, now known as the Deep South, to lands west of the Mississippi River.
Other parties to treaty Date of ratification by CSA Congress Subject matter 10 July 1861: Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the Creek Nation of Indians Muscogee (Creek) Nation: Relations with Indian tribes in Indian Territory: 12 July 1861: Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with Chocktaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians: Choctaw; Chickasaw ...
Treaty of Chickasaw Bluffs: Treaty with the Chickasaw 7 Stat. 65: Chickasaw: 1801 December 17 Treaty of Fort Adams: Treaty with the Choctaw 7 Stat. 66: 43 Choctaw: 1802 June 16 Treaty of Fort Wilkinson: Treaty with the Creeks 7 Stat. 68: 44 Creek: 1802 June 30 Treaty of Buffalo Creek: Indenture with the Senecas 7 Stat. 70: 45 Seneca: 1802 June 30
The Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws was a treaty signed on July 12, 1861 between the Choctaw and Chickasaw (two American Indian nations) and the Confederate States. At the beginning of the American Civil War , Albert Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to Native Americans.
Article 11 of that treaty states: "The hatchet shall be forever buried, and the peace given by the United States of America, and friendship re-established between the said States on the one part, and the Chickasaw nation on the other part, shall be universal, and the contracting parties shall use their utmost endeavors to maintain the peace ...
The Chickasaw, dwelling in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee, lay across the French path. Much to the eventual advantage of the British and the later United States, the Chickasaw successfully held their ground. The wars came to an end only with the French cession of New France to the British in 1763 according to terms of the Treaty of ...
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations had a single Reconstruction Treaty, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Treaty of Washington (1866). [34] in which they sold land west of the 98 longitude to the United States for $300,000. Much of this land was previously "leased" to the Federal Government and was the home of other Indian tribes.