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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Choctaw Indian Council meets at Armstrong Academy on May 14 to address adopting freedmen per 1866 treaty, after prior failures left them without rights or land titles despite U.S. agreement for $300,000.
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St. Louis, Mo., May 15.—A special session of the Choctaw Indian Council met at Armstrong Academy, the Capital of the Nation, yesterday, having been called by the principal chief, McCurtain, to consider the Freedman question, by the treaty of 1866, between the Federal Government and the confederated Indians. The Choctaws and Chickasaws agreed to emancipate and give the usual rights to the colored people in their nation within two years, for which the United States was to give them $300,000 and if they failed to adopt them in that time, the money was to be used to remove and settle the darkies elsewhere. The Choctaws failed to adopt them, and the Government to move them, and they have been there ever since without either citizenship, rights or title to the lands they work. The Choctaws now desire to adopt them and it is for this purpose their council was called.
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Armstrong Academy, The Capital Of The Nation
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Yesterday (May 14, Relative To May 15)
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A special session of the Choctaw Indian Council met at Armstrong Academy, called by principal chief McCurtain, to consider adopting freedmen as per the 1866 treaty. The treaty required emancipation and rights within two years for $300,000, or relocation if failed. Choctaws failed to adopt, government failed to move them, leaving freedmen without citizenship or land rights. Now Choctaws desire to adopt them.