Chahta

The Choctaw were a Native American people of the region that became Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Their ancestors belonged to the Mississippian cultural world, before the Choctaw emerged as a distinct people in the sixteenth century.

Their three political divisions made separate European alliances. In the War of 1812, Pushmataha's warriors fought alongside the United States. The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ceded their remaining Mississippi homeland in 1830; most Choctaw were forced west in 1831–1833, retaining a three-district government in Indian Territory.