BGuthrie Photos: MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 251.1 -- Chickasaw Council House

MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 251.1 -- Chickasaw Council House:

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1. NT2511_170605_01.JPG: Chickasaw Council House: Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood an Indian village, Pontatock, with its council house, which in the 1820s became the capitol of the Chickasaw Nation. The chiefs and the head men met there to sign treaties or to establish tribal laws and policies. Each summer 2,000 or 3,000 Indians camped nearby to receive an annual payment for lands they had sold to our Federal government. After the treaty of 1832, the last land was surrendered. The council house disappeared but its memory remains here in the names of a Mississippi county and town that went west with the Chickasaw as a county and village in Oklahoma.
2. NT2511_170605_04.JPG: "Rather Than Submit" "Being ignorant of the language and laws of the white man, they cannot understand or obey them. Rather than submit to this great evil, they prefer to seek a home in the west..." -- Treaty of Pontotoc Creek, October 1832 By the 1830s, westward expansion and the imposing US government made life for the Chickasaw living here increasingly oppressive. Settlers encroached on Chickasaw land. State officials ignored tribal laws and enforced state laws. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 made tribal relocation official US policy. In 1832, Chickasaw leaders and US officials met for days at a council house along Pontotoc Creek near here. Determined to negotiate the best terms possible, Chickasaw leaders discussed removal terms with General John Coffee, US Commissioner. After the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek was signed, six million acres of Chickasaw Homeland were exchanged for an equal amount of land in Indian Territory plus the proceeds from the sale of their eastern lands. But in the process, the Chickasaw gained more control over how they would move west.
3. NT2511_170605_10.JPG: Chickasaw Land Ceded to the US
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Description of Subject Matter: Site of Pontatok, Chickasaw Nation capital in the 1820s.
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