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.
