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| | Museum of the Red River–The Choctaw |
 | | The Choctaw’s long journey to their new home, which was often made without the supplies and wagons promised in the treaty, was arduous. |
 | | By 1848, Choctaw newspapers were in circulation, and Christian missionaries had been given permission to establish new stations in the territory. |
 | | Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, whereby remaining 10,000,000+ acres of Choctaw land in Mississippi and Alabama are ceded, and tribes agree to move to Indian Territory in exchange for protection, passage, and an annuity of $20,000 for twenty years, plus funds for schools, churches, and a council house. |
| www.museumoftheredriver.org /choctaw.html (1294 words) |
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