Greenwood LeFlore

Greenwood LeFlore or Greenwood Le Fleur ( born June 3, 1800 Hinds County, Mississippi; † August 31, 1865 ) was the son of a French-Canadian trader and a Choctaw.

Life

From the age of 12 he attended a school in Nashville. At 22 he was chief of the western Choctaw, then still living in the U.S. state of Mississippi. In 1830 he was Chief of Choctaw. Greenwood LeFlore supported the program of George Washington, to integrate the Indians into the culture of European-descended population. He encouraged the members of his people to settle down to grow crops, to accept the Christian faith and to send the children to school.

Greenwood LeFlore was involved in the negotiations for the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek closed. According to the Indian Removal Act, the Choctaw should, like all other Indians are east of the Mississippi relocated to the Indian Territory in the later state of Oklahoma. Greenwood LeFlore reached relatively good hearing results in the allocation of land in the new settlement area for his people, but was regarded by his critics as one of the most responsible for the expulsion from the home.

Greenwood LeFlore was appointed to the upper classes of the state Mississippi. He was a politician in the House of Representatives and the Senate of Mississippi and was a personal friend of Jefferson Davis. In the American Civil War, however, he turned against the withdrawal from the Union, leading to the loss of all of its assets by themselves.

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