Musholatubbee

Musholatubbee, portrait by George Catlin, 1834

Musholatubbee (* 1770 ; † 1836 in La Flore , Oklahoma ), in the language of the Choctaw : AmoshuliTʊbi (German: intended to be killed , other spellings: Mosholetvbbi, AmoshuliTʊbi, Mushulatubbee and Moshaleh Tubbee) was during the violent expulsion from the southeast of the supreme leader of the Choctaw , an Indian people in the United States of America .

He supported Andrew Jackson during the Creek War . He signed both the Choctaw Trading House treaty on October 24, 1816, and the Treaty Ground treaty of October 18, 1820. In 1824, the increasing hunger for land of the white settlers and the disregard for the sovereign tribal territories for the leaders of the Choctaw, including Pushmataha , Musholatubee and Apuchunubbee pose a serious threat to their people. They decided to take their case to the Washington DC government in person. The head of the delegation was Pushmataha, their goal was either to have white settlers expelled from the tribal areas or to obtain appropriate financial compensation for the lost areas. Other participants in the group were Talking Warrior, Red Fort, Nittahkachee, Robert Cole and David Folsom, both half Choctaw, and Captain Daniel McCurtain and Major John Pitchlynn. The delegation signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 26, 1830 in Washington, DC , with which the Choctaw exchanged most of their settlement areas in Mississippi for new areas in so-called Indian territory . In the treaty signed under pressure from the American government and ratified on February 24, 1831, the Choctaw ceded around 45,000 square kilometers of land to the federal government and received around 61,000 square kilometers in what is now the state of Oklahoma . The treaty, in which the nation renounced its sovereignty , did not have the approval of the people, but the Native American negotiators Greenwood LeFlore , Musholatubbee and Nittucachee saw no other way of maintaining at least a remnant of the original tribal areas for their people.

Musholatubbee himself was also relocated and died of a smallpox infection not far from Le Flore, Oklahoma .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Earl White: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma . Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Archived from the original on September 13, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 29, 2009. 
2. ↑ Clifford E. Trafzer, Diane E. Weiner: Medicine ways: disease, health, and survival among Native Americans. Rowman Altamira 2001, page 13, ISBN 0742502554

literature

• Horatio Bardwell Cushman, Angie Debo: History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians. University of Oklahoma Press 1999, ISBN 0806131276

Web links

• Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: Brief biography Musholatubbees (Engl.)