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The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a Treaty signed on September 27 , 1830 (and proclaimed on 24 February 1831 ) between the Choctaw s (an American Indian tribe) and the United States . This was the first Removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act . The treaty ceded about 11 million acres (45,000 km²) in Mississippi in exchange for about 15 million acres (61,000 km²) in the Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma ). The principal Choctaw negotiator was Chief Greenwood LeFlore ; U.S. negotiators were Colonel John Coffee and Secretary Of War John Eaton . This treaty was the last in a series of such treaties which the Choctaws signed. More details about this and the other treaties can be found at Choctaw . EXTERNAL LINKS
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