Physical location
Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-03: Indians III:
Page 6.9
Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-03: Indians III:
Page 6.9
- Material type
- Article
- Description
- Pushmataha and other Choctaws agreed with Shawnee Chief Tecumseh that they needed to organize an all-Indian Confederacy to limit American Expansion. Pushmataha did not have the means to support the movement dissuaded his tribe and the Chickasaws from joining the alliance. The Treaty of Ghent left America in control of the Old Southwest. This was supposed to be a permanent treaty but ended up being renegotiated in 1825.
- Subjects and names
- Treaty of Ghent, Choctaws, Shawnee, Chickasaws, American Expansion, President Monroe, President Jefferson, Pushmataha, Peter Perkins Pitchlyn, Tecumseh, Chiefs, Loss of Indian Territory.
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