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Search selected Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek treaties by record, Nation, region, or year. Each detail keeps the source text, editorial interpretation, and genealogical relevance in separate sections.

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Region labels are research indexes for places named in each text; they are not mapped treaty boundaries.

Filters combine: each result must match every selected field. The 1802 option locates the supplied date reference; Hoe Buckintoopa is dated 1803 in its linked text.

9 records

Cherokee

Treaty of Hopewell

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

November 28, 1785

The articles set out peace terms and describe a boundary for Cherokee hunting grounds.

RegionSoutheast
Choctaw

Treaty of Hoe Buckintoopa

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

August 31, 1803

The signatories confirm a boundary line distinguishing land ceded to the United States from land not ceded by the Choctaw Nation.

RegionAlabamaMississippiSoutheast

The brief and family reference use 1802. The cited treaty transcription dates this document August 31, 1803; 1802 remains searchable as the supplied date, not as the date shown by the text.

Creek

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

August 9, 1814

The agreement records a cession of Creek territory and sets out provisions concerning other Creek lands and reservations.

RegionAlabamaGeorgiaSoutheast
Choctaw

Treaty of Doak's Stand

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

October 18, 1820

The treaty records a Choctaw land cession in Mississippi and a tract described west of the Mississippi River.

RegionMississippiSoutheast
Creek

Treaty of Indian Springs

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

January 8, 1821

The treaty describes a Creek cession east of a stated boundary and identifies several reserved tracts.

RegionGeorgiaSoutheast
Creek

Second Treaty of Indian Springs

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

February 12, 1825

This separate 1825 convention records a Creek land cession and promised western lands and payments.

RegionGeorgiaSoutheast
Creek

Treaty of Washington

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

January 24, 1826

The treaty addresses the contested 1825 agreement and records a separate Creek cession in Georgia.

RegionGeorgiaSoutheast
Choctaw

Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

September 27, 1830

The treaty sets out peace, western-land, and cession terms, including the Choctaw cession of lands east of the Mississippi River.

RegionMississippiSoutheast

The text says the treaty was begun at Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 15 and records execution on September 27, 1830.

Creek

Treaty of Cusseta

Primary treaty text · Oklahoma State University, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

March 24, 1832

The treaty records a cession of Creek lands east of the Mississippi and specifies land-selection provisions.

RegionAlabamaGeorgiaSoutheast