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Choctaw Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
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| Lat: 32 45 51 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.7630 decimal degrees |
| Long: 089 12 31 W degrees minutes |
Long: -89.2080 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The reservation spans approximately 20,683 acres in Neshoba, Leake, Kemper, Lauderdale, Carroll, Newton, Scott, Attala, Winston, Noxubee, Jackson, and Jones Counties, Mississippi; it encompasses seven distinct communities, including Bogue, Chitto, Pearl River, and Redwater. While the Choctaw peoples, from whom the Mississippi Band descend, have occupied the southeastern United States for centuries prior to European contact; however, the Mississippi Band was not granted federal lands until 1830. As the culmination of a series of treaties between the US and the Choctaw peoples, which led to the Choctaw people losing 32 million acres of their traditional lands, the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek established the reservation for all Choctaw who did not want to relocate to Oklahoma. About 4,000 Choctaw chose to remain in Mississippi and settle on this newly established reservation. |
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| Choctaw Reservation (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Mississippi Choctaw Reservation (C,V,O,English,U)
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| Choctaw Indian Reservation (C,V,English,U,N)
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Kemper (county) (P) |
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Jones (county) (P) |
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Scott (county) (P) |
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Attala (county) (P) |
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Leake (county) (P) |
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Newton (county) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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