Old Town Treaty

Isaac Shelby, one of the negotiators and signers of the contract

The Old Town Treaty was a land assignment agreement between the Chickasaw and the United States of America . The document was adopted on October 19, 1818 in Old Town, Tennessee . Negotiations were conducted on the Chickasaw side by the General Assembly of Native American tribal leaders, the interests of the United States being represented by Isaac Shelby , the former governor of Kentucky and Andrew Jackson , the future President of the United States . For Tennessee, which was established as a state in 1796 and whose western border area was barely populated until the signing of the treaty, the expansion of the settlement to the Mississippi River began .

With the conclusion of the contract, the Chickasaw ceded their ancestral settlement area between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers in the west of what is now the state of Tennessee in return for the payment of 300,000 dollars to the federal government. With the subsequent Treaty of Franklin from 1830, the Treaty of Pontotoc of 1832 and the Treaty of Washington in 1834, the Chickasaw exchanged the remaining tribal areas in the region as part of the Indian Removal Act ( Indian Relocation Act ) against land in Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma a. In the course of the Indian resettlement described as the path of tears , the Chickasaw left their ancestral territories in today's states of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama around 1837 .

literature

Jim W. Johnson: Rivers under siege: the troubled saga of West Tennessee's wetlands. University of Tennessee Press, 2007, ISBN 1572334908
Arrell M. Gibson: The Chickasaws. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK et al. 1971, ISBN 0-8061-0945-9 ( The Civilization of the American Indian Series 109)

Individual evidence

^ Charles J. Kappler. Washington: United States Government Printing Office , 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1818. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Old Town Treaty).
^ Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1830. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Franklin Treaty).
^ Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1832. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Pontotoc Treaty).
^ Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1834. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Treaty of Washington, 1834).

[1] Charles J. Kappler. Washington: United States Government Printing Office , 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1818. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Old Town Treaty).

[2] Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1830. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Franklin Treaty).

[3] Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1832. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Pontotoc Treaty).

[4] Charles J. Kappler. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904: TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW, 1834. In: Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State University, accessed April 24, 2009 (transcribed from the original text of the Treaty of Washington, 1834).