Description: One Modern (Post 1830) Choctaw (MOWA) Indian Medal, Celebrating the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. B or CObverse: “Alabama 27th Sept 1830, Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. The Choctaw Tribe Will Live in Peace”. Reverse: “Peace 1830”. Free USPS priority shipping. The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a treaty which was signed on September 27, 1830, and proclaimed on February 24, 1831, between the Choctaw American Indian tribe and the United States Government. This treaty was the first removal treaty which was carried into effect underthe Indian Removal Act. The treaty ceded about 11 million acres (45,000 km2) of the Choctaw Nation in what is now Mississippi in exchangefor about 15 million acres (61,000 km2) in the Indian territory, now the state of Oklahoma. The principal Choctaw negotiators were Chief Greenwood LeFlore, Mosholatubbee, and Nittucachee; the U.S. negotiators were Colonel John Coffee and Secretary of War John Eaton. The site of the signing of this treaty is in the southwest corner of Noxubee County; the site was known to the Choctaw as Bok Chukfi Ahilha (creek "bok" rabbit "chukfi" place to dance "a+hilha" or Dancing Rabbit Creek). The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was the last major land cession treaty which was signed by the Choctaw. With ratification by the U.S. Congress in 1831, the treaty allowed those Choctaw who chose to remain in Mississippi (the MOWA) to become the first major non-European ethnic group to gain recognition as U.S. citizens. The Choctaw resisted repeated state and federal demands for their territory until 1801, when they were forced to make the first of many land cessions to the United States. Despite making efforts to assimilate into American culture and even fighting alongside Americans in the War of 1812, when the 1830 Indian Removal Act passed, the Choctaw were the first to walk the Trail of Tears out to Oklahoma. But a few thousand remained (the MOWA) behind, hiding in the swamps and pine barrens of the Alabama-Tombigbee watershed. They were eventually joined by refugees from other Indian tribes, including Creek, Cherokee, and Apache. Today, around 3,600 MOWA (Choctaw) live on or around the reservation. Living in Alabama: the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, named for their location along the Mobile-Washington County line. The MOWA reservation sits in a forested, stream-threaded landwhere the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers meet, between the cities of McIntosh, Mt. Vernon, and Citronelle in the southwestern corner of the state.
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Location: Thousand Oaks, California
End Time: 2024-09-11T00:15:59.000Z
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