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What is the name of the 1830 treaty that granted citizenship to some Choctaw?

  • Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

  • Treaty of New Echota

  • Treaty of Greenville

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The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, signed in 1830, granted citizenship to some Choctaw who chose to stay in the state of Mississippi. They were one of the first major non-European ethnic groups to be granted citizenship in the United States.
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