Mushulatubbee District, English Names

With the passage by the U.S. Congress of the Indian Removal Act that same year, the legal mechanisms were put in place for President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indian groups for their deportation.

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. The Choctaws were given three years to leave Mississippi.

English names listed on the1831 "list of claims allowed under the treaty in Mingo Mushulatubbee's district". These are "persons that have relinquished their land.

• Additional Choctaw Resources

  • Nitachacha District

  • Greenwood Leflore District

  • Choctaw Claims

Notes About this Publication:

Source: Armstrong Roll of Choctaw, 1831, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual output.

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