History of federal relations with the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians since 1865 ...

• Main Author: Davis, Edward
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Texas at Austin 1935
• Subjects: Five Civilized Tribes history; North American Indian history; United States-Indian relations; United States-Native American relations; United States-indigenous people relations; United States-First Nations relations; North American indigenous history; 19th century Native American-United States relations; 19th century Indian-United States relations; 19th century United States-Indian relations; 20th century United States-Indian relations; American Indian-federal relations history; Native American-federal relations history; American indigenous-federal relations; Indians of North America > Government relations > History > 19th century; Indians of North America > Government relations > History > 20th century; Indians of North America > Oklahoma > History > 19th century; Indians of North America > Oklahoma > History > 20th century; Indigenous peoples > Oklahoma > History > 19th century; Indigenous peoples > Oklahoma > History > 20th century; Indigenous peoples > United States > History > 19th century; Indigenous peoples > United States > History > 20th century; Five Civilized Tribes > History > 19th century; Alabama; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/51512; https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/124910

The Five Civilized Tribes, as they came to be known, had occupied the Southeastern United States and had become fixed in their locations. De Soto had found them here in 1540, and they remained in the same localities until they were removed to the west of the Mississippi River. The Seminoles, who had earlier composed a part of the Creek tribe, were in Florida. The Creeks, because of their aggressive attitude, occupied a widely expanded territory in Georgia and Alabama. The Cherokees occupied lands in Northern Georgia and Alabama, Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. The Choctaws and Chickasaws occupied lands between the Tombigbee and Mississippi River, mainly in Mississippi, but extending into Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee. Four of the tribes, the Seminoles, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws were Muskogean in stock. The Cherokees were an off-shoot of the Iriquoyan Confederacy. A rush of white immigration, directly after 1789, threatened to overwhelm these five tribes. They first resorted to force, ...