The Treaty of Doak's Stand (7 Stat. 210, also known as Treaty with the Choctaw) was signed on October 18, 1820 (proclaimed on January 8, 1821) between the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and the Choctaw

Choctaw

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

 Indian tribe. Based on the terms of the accord, the Choctaw agreed to give up approximately one-half of their remaining Choctaw homeland. In October 1820, Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 and Thomas Hinds

Thomas Hinds

Thomas Hinds was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi.Born in Berkeley County, Virginia , Hinds would later move to Greenville, Mississippi...

 were sent as commissioners who represented the United States to negotiate a treaty to surrender a portion of Choctaw country in Mississippi.