First Choctaw Cession

On November 16, 1805, at Mount Dexter, Choctaw leaders including Pukshunnubbee, Homastubbee and Pushmataha signed a treaty with commissioners James Robertson and Silas Dinsmoor. It ceded 4,142,720 acres running from the Natchez District east toward the Tombigbee and Alabama watersheds, mostly in what is now Mississippi. Pushmataha had been elected chief of the Southern District that year. He later fought beside the Americans in the War of 1812 and bargained with Andrew Jackson before Doak's Stand; most Choctaw were removed west less than a decade after his death in 1824.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prentiss Institute — 20 mi
  A school for Black Mississippians founded in 1907 in a former plantation house, with a restored 1926 Rosenwald building that now holds a museum.

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