Can someone help me write a summary of The dancing Rabbit creek Treaty
I need help rewording it
Why the government wanted the removals, including any conditions that led to the treaty. The conditions agreed upon in the treaty. How the tribes responded to that treaty, including the results of the treaty and impact on the tribe.
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was agreed upon in September 1830 between representatives of the Choctaw Nation and the United States. It was the first treaty signed after the creation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to begin the removal of eastern Indians to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. In it, the Choctaw ceded control of their communally held lands in central Mississippi and west-central Alabama, more than 10 million acres, to the U.S. government. The Alabama area ceded by the Choctaws includes the town of Livingston and surrounding land west of the Tombigbee River. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the Choctaws and Creek Indians in the Southeast ceded millions of acres to the United States that enabled the creation of the Mississippi Territory in 1798. In 1818, the territory was divided in half to form the state of Mississippi and the Alabama Territory. Soon after, the U.S. government, with the support of Mississippi government officials, Pushmataha began treaty negotiations with the Choctaws (whose traditional homeland encompassed much of present-day east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama) for their removal west of the Mississippi River. That initial attempt in 1818 failed because the Choctaw people unanimously opposed removal; however, U.S. representatives, including Gen. Andrew Jackson, Mississippi state senator Daniel Burnett, and U.S. Indian agent John McKee, returned in August 1819 to renew their negotiations with Choctaw leadership. Famed Choctaw chief Pushmataha, who had led Choctaw military forces in support of the United States during the War of 1812 and the Creek War of 1813-14, eloquently but forcefully rejected the U.S. request to trade Choctaw lands in Mississippi for new lands west of the Mississippi River.
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