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Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1801–1855, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 208,484 km² in 12 cessions across Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Choctaw · Chickasaw

Royce 367, 1855Royce 368, 1855Royce 485, 1855Royce 156, 1830Royce 115, 1820Royce 122, 1820Royce 82, 1816Royce 61, 1805Royce 62, 1805Royce 157, 1805Royce 46, 1802Royce 43, 1801
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
43December 17, 1801 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
46October 17, 1802 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
61November 16, 1805 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
62November 16, 1805 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
157November 16, 1805; September 27, 1830 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
82October 24, 1816 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
115October 18, 1820 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
122October 18, 1820; January 20, 1825 Choctaw · with Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text
156September 27, 1830 Choctaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
367June 22, 1855 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
368June 22, 1855 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
485June 22, 1855; April 28, 1866 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text

Trails across these lands

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.