Editorial note — Chapter XVIII · : Future Condition Of Three Races—Part II
Henry Reeve translation
u [ In 1829 the State of Alabama divided the Creek territory into counties, and subjected the Indian population to the power of European magistrates.
In 1830 the State of Mississippi assimilated the Choctaws and Chickasaws to the white population, and declared that any of them that should take the title of chief would be punished by a fine of $1,000 and a year’s imprisonment. When these laws were enforced upon the Choctaws, who inhabited that district, the tribe assembled, their chief communicated to them the intentions of the whites, and read to them some of the laws to which it was intended that they should submit; and they unanimously declared that it was better at once to retreat again into the wilds.]