PEACE, PROGRESS AND REMOVAL
by Robert Register
(this article was first published almost 22 years ago in Issue #33 of OLD TUSCALOOSA MAGAZINE in October of 1997)
In 1830, the Choctaw families in West Alabama had made amazing progress in adapting to the ways of the white man. The women were spinning and weaving homespun cloth from which they sewed their own clothing. The warriors were forbidden to go to Mobile or New Orleans during planting season and for the first time in their history, Choctaw men stayed at home and worked. All of this was about to change. On September 27, 1830, the signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek stripped the Choctaw's entire ancient inheritance from them with the stroke of a pen. The Choctaw legacy of friendship with the white man was ignored. The fact that this tribe had never made war against the French, the Spanish, the English or the Americans was never considered. The “godfather,” Andrew Jackson, gave the Choctaw an offer they could not refuse. The Choctaw Nation, led by Demopolis businessman George Strother Gaines, packed their belongings and moved west. What force could be so powerful as to push the Choctaw out of their old hunting grounds in Alabama and Mississippi? (to read the rest of this article, click on this link https://robertoreg.blogspot.com/
by Robert Register
(this article was first published almost 22 years ago in Issue #33 of OLD TUSCALOOSA MAGAZINE in October of 1997)
In 1830, the Choctaw families in West Alabama had made amazing progress in adapting to the ways of the white man. The women were spinning and weaving homespun cloth from which they sewed their own clothing. The warriors were forbidden to go to Mobile or New Orleans during planting season and for the first time in their history, Choctaw men stayed at home and worked. All of this was about to change. On September 27, 1830, the signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek stripped the Choctaw's entire ancient inheritance from them with the stroke of a pen. The Choctaw legacy of friendship with the white man was ignored. The fact that this tribe had never made war against the French, the Spanish, the English or the Americans was never considered. The “godfather,” Andrew Jackson, gave the Choctaw an offer they could not refuse. The Choctaw Nation, led by Demopolis businessman George Strother Gaines, packed their belongings and moved west. What force could be so powerful as to push the Choctaw out of their old hunting grounds in Alabama and Mississippi? (to read the rest of this article, click on this link https://robertoreg.blogspot.com/
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