Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

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There is also Dancing Rabbit, an ecovillage in Missouri.

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a treaty signed on September 27, 1830 (and proclaimed on 24 February 1831) between the Choctaws (an American Indian tribe) and the United States. This was the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act. The treaty ceded about 11 million acres (45,000 km²) in Mississippi in exchange for about 15 million acres (61,000 km²) in the Indian territory (now the state of Oklahoma). The principal Choctaw negotiator was Chief Greenwood LeFlore; U.S. negotiators were Colonel John Coffee and Secretary of War John Eaton.

This treaty was the last in a series of such treaties which the Choctaws signed. More details about this and the other treaties can be found at Choctaw.

[edit] External links

• Article about the treaty from Encyclopedia of North American Indians
• Text of the treaty
• 1929 account of the treaty