Chickasaw land cession map (timeline.chickasaw.net)

SUMMARYChickasaw land cession map (timeline.chickasaw.net)
What it shows: Chickasaw cessions of 1805, 1816, 1818 and 1832. Pontotoc, Tupelo and Monroe County sit inside the 1832 cession (Treaty of Pontotoc Creek).
Why it matters: the colored schools the Klan closed in 1871 were on Chickasaw homeland ceded just 39 years earlier.
Proof level: Record (treaty dates). The link between the colored school families and Chickasaw people who stayed is an Open Question to test with records (1830s Chickasaw rolls, 1870 census, Chickasaw Freedmen rolls).