The Chickasaws left for their council.  After four days, they returned and stated that they would agree to relocate.  However, they surveyed their promised lands and found that they were in poor shape, thus, they elected to stay were they where.  In addition, the Senate refused to ratify this treaty.  The Chickasaws would remain in Mississippi until 1832 living under oppressive state laws.[i]

Jackson next turned to the Choctaws who sent a message to him on August 16, 18 30 .  In the message, they stated that they would be willing to receive a delegation.  Jackson accepted this and sent Eaton and Coffee to negotiate. The two parties met “between the two prongs of the Dancing Rabbit Creek in Noxubee County , Mississippi ... ...on September 15, 18 30 ”.  In addition to the two parties, many malicious individuals such as gamblers and prostitutes were also present. As a result, whiskey was present and many Choctaws were drunk when their meeting began three days later. [ii]

The US delegation spelled out their terms but the Choctaws almost unanimously voted to reject them.  This angered Coffee who apparently shouted at them that if the treaty were not signed, Jackson would set up forts so that the laws of the United States could be enforced.  Further, he added, that if the Choctaws went to war, their nation would be ruined.   This shocked the Choctaws who reconsidered and on September 27, 18 30 the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit was signed.  The Choctaws would be the first to migrate to Indian Territory in three stages between 1831 and 1833.  They would also cede to the United States 10,423,130 acres of land.[iii]

Although the Choctaws agreed to migrate west, their migration was disastrous.  About 1000 Choctaws began to migrate west, just after the treaty was signed, with out support.  Nevertheless, two missionaries lead them to their tract in Indian Territory .  Of the 1000 that left that winter, only 88 survived, mostly women and children.  Later that summer some 400 stragglers would join them in their new home.  The winter of 1831-32 was nearly as bad, but the Choctaw immigrants did have more support from the government.  However, they still had a rather difficult journey.  Because of this, many decided to migrate in the summers of 1832 and 1833.  Cholera outbreaks further decimated the Choctaw people.  All in all some nine thousand migrated west while another seven thousand remained.[iv]

Because of the disastrous removal of the Choctaw people, new regulations were put in place.  The War Department would supervise further removal of Native Americans.  These new regulations included rules of support, including supplies.  By 1832 when the Chickasaws were ready to renegotiate their treaty, these new regulations were in place. Although a treaty was signed, it would take another five years for the migration west to take place.  In 1838 they migrated west with better land transportation on new roads.  Supplies, such as blankets, shoes, and clothing were available along their journey.  Altogether, some 6000 Chickasaws migrated that summer with better results than the Choctaws did.[v]