Today in Labor History February 24, 1831: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was proclaimed. It was the first removal treaty of the Indian Removal Act. Under the treaty, the Choctaws in Mississippi gave up their land east of the Mississippi River (15 million acres) in exchange for cash and land in the West (present day Oklahoma). 5-6,000 Choctaws (25% of their population), chose to stay in Mississippi. However, settlers and white locals continually abused them, burning down their properties, attacking them, arresting them, and sometimes murdering them.

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