Report on the Chickasaws and Choctaws
Document 1789Knox views the substantial distance of the Chickasaws and Choctaws from frontier settlements as the principle reason that few complaints regarding white encroachments have thus far been lodged. Knox notes that Chickasaws and Choctaws are "represented as candid, generous, brave, and honest" and have placed themselves under the protection of the United States and no other sovereign.
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Knox views the substantial distance of the Chickasaws and Choctaws from frontier settlements as the principle reason that few complaints regarding white encroachments have thus far been lodged. Knox notes that Chickasaws and Choctaws are "represented as candid, generous, brave, and honest" and have placed themselves under the protection of the United States and no other sovereign.
Date
07/07/1789
Author
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War Office
Collection
Document number
1789070700100
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Notable persons
George Washington
Henry Knox
Tobocah, one of the great medal chiefs of the Choctraws
Commissioners of the United States
Indian Nation
Chickasaws
warriors
whites
Cherokees
Congress
Notable locations
War Office
frontier settlements
Indian land
ridge which divides the waters running into the Cumberland from those running into the Tennessee
the Mississippi
Mobile river
lower posts of the Muscle Shoals
mouth or junction of the Ocochappo with the Tennessee
headwaters of the Pascagoula and Pearl rivers
territory of Spain
Notable items
Treaty of Hopewell with the Chicasaws and Choctaws
land rights
boundary disputes
Indian relations
violence
peace
trading post
encroachments of the whites
distressed situation of the Cherokees
principal towns or villages
establishment of trade