On this day, September 27th, 1830 the Choctaw Indians ceded their lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
20,000 Choctaws were removed and sent west, alone with as many Cherokee, Catawba, Creek, and Cree the United States could round up - using the Dancing Rabbit Creek "treaty" as a pretext.
7,000 survived the 'march' to what is now Oklahoma on what is known as The Trail of Tears.
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