{"slug": "choctaw", "label": "Choctaw", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324516", "qid": "Q324516", "description": "Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1765, 1866], "span_label": ["1765 CE", "1866 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "andrew-jackson", "label": "Andrew Jackson", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cherokee", "label": "Cherokee", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi", "label": "Mississippi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mobile-alabama", "label": "Mobile, Alabama", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – At Fort Tombecbe, near what is now the town of Epes, Alabama, representatives of the British Empire and of the Choctaw Indian tribe in Mississippi sign a peace treaty in the wake of French cession of claims to the British. A boundary is fixed between land to be occupied by the Choctaws and for lands which British settlers can use; in addition, the British agree to provide a police official and a gunsmith at Fort Tombecbe for the Choctaws to use for trespassing complaints and for weapons repairs. By 1775, however, the Choctaws are outnumbered in Mississippi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373039097#April–June", "title": "1765", "revid": 1373039097, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1771, "year_label": "1771 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Men, women and children of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes begin a 23-day encampment at Mobile, part of the British colony of West Florida, at the invitation of British Southern Indian superintendent John Stuart, as their leaders negotiate a treaty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363214109#October–December", "title": "1771", "revid": 1363214109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 3", "text": "January 3 – The third Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States and the Choctaw.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#January–March", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – Pushmataha, chief of the Choctaw Nation (b. c. 1764)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359333471#July–December", "title": "1824", "revid": 1359333471, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1830, "year_label": "1830 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – The Indian Removal Act is signed into law by U.S. President Andrew Jackson, beginning the \"Trail of Tears\" with the forced relocation of more than 60,000 Indigenous Americans from the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations from the southeastern United States to what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The relocation is accomplished by the end of 1838. In addition to the five tribes, thousands of Indian-owned black slaves are moved as well, and the move has the effect of beginning mass destruction of bison in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352223718#April–June", "title": "1830", "revid": 1352223718, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1866, "year_label": "1866 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – Reconstruction Treaty with Choctaw & Chickasaw, completing the abolition of slavery in the United States; see also Choctaw freedmen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829327#July", "title": "1866", "revid": 1368829327, "section": "Events › July"}}]}