Five Civilized Tribes Portraits
Though it was often one-sided and biased, the relationship between American Indians and white settlers was of long duration. One early milestone in that relationship was the recognition of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Five tribes lived east of the Mississippi in what became North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Eventually, white settlers thought it would be desirable to re-locate these tribes.
The U.S. government entered into a treaty called the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 27, 1830, to remove the Choctaws to land west of the Mississippi. Similar treaties were made between the government and other tribes, who were to govern themselves so long as their laws didn’t conflict with those of the U.S., its treaties, and the Constitution.
The Five Civilized Tribes are: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Indians.
I appreciate your interest in discovering your ancestry, but I’m so sorry that I simply don’t know how to help you. I suppose you could get your DNA tested through Ancestry.com or another company, which might lead you in the correct direction.
My family is from Louisiana and Mississippi,dates 1860-1971 Sir names Edgerly,Armelin(Oriscar)Louisiana. Mississippi Richardson and Price. “Native Americans or Indians”? I need to find out which with and DNA evidence. Please help me out with this. Thank you!
Its ironic how historians seem to always get the role of black indians wrong. There were black Moors and native black indians, and also black indians that were of mixed heritage. Yet the only reference is of slaves. Especially in Louisiana and Mississippi, where there were quite a few “dark skinned” indians prior to slavery. Ive compared my own dna to a mississippi Choctaw indians and have confirmed what my grandmother and great aunt have always said.
Certainly–I appreciate it.
Carla