The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a treaty

Treaty

A treaty is an express agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an agreement, protocol, covenant, convention or exchange of letters, among other terms...

 signed on September 27, 1830 (and proclaimed on 24 February 1831) between the Choctaw

Choctaw

The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States...

 (an American Indian tribe) and the United States Government. This was the first removal

Indian Removal

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 treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act

Indian Removal Act

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830.The Removal Act was strongly supported in the South, where states were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized Tribes. In particular, Georgia, the largest state at that time, was involved in...

. The treaty ceded about 11 million acres (45,000 km²) of the Choctaw Nation (now Mississippi

Mississippi

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) in exchange for about 15 million acres (61,000 km²) in the Indian territory

Indian Territory

The Indian Territory, also known as the Indian Territories and the Indian Country, was land set aside within the United States for the settlement of American Indians...

 (now the state of Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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).