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Their hair and makeup are perfect, they’re dropping their kids off before heading to the gym in their perfect winged eyeliner and yoga pants and you know none of those kids begged their mom into giving them a lunchable. At least I had time enough to make myself a cup of coffee,  That’s more important than perfect winged eyeliner, right? I ended up painting a galaxy tee shirt for “space day” at school the next day getting done around 11:00 pm. While I was a puddle on the floor crying over a stupid dog and feeling like the worst person/mother in the world, my baby was trying to make me feel better.

I’ve done several posts in the past on what I am thankful for, you can read those by searching the blog if you like. We’re thankful to have jobs even if they drive us crazy, houses even when they seem too large when cleaning them, cars that run most of the time, and the little luxuries that make life worth living like horses, chocolate, and coffee. I have places I would like to go, things I would like to accomplish and being the type of person I am I get all worked up and frustrated when I don’t get there on this imaginary timeline I’ve set for myself. I’ve been writing when the spirit moves and posting when I felt like a piece of writing was right.

Chief Greenwood LeFlore of the western district and his people camped on the highest ground on Big Rabbit Creek, Chief Mushulatubbee of the northwestern district and his people camped below LeFlore, and Chief Nittakeche of the southeastern district camped below them, and lastly Chief Hopaii Iskitini also called “Little Leader” arrived last and camped along Little Rabbit Creek. He stated that this treaty had ceded an “extensive and fertile land west of the Mississippi and that the Choctaw had already agreed to remove their people to this land. At the closing ceremonies, Colonel Coffee buried a pine knot as was traditional among the Indians and said that as long as the pine knot was buried the United States would never again ask for more land from the Indians. The site is very secluded and honestly, I was there for over an hour and not one car passed by the site, I think the silence and the remoteness add to the atmosphere.

General Jackson who would later become President Jackson commanded a regiment led by Colonel John Coffee who would later be sent to negotiate several Indian treaties including Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty with the Choctaw and the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the Chickasaw. Chief Mushulatubbee, a future player at the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty, supported this treaty to boost his own leadership within the tribe. The Treaty of Doak’s Stand provided the Choctaws with land west of the Mississippi River in present-day Arkansas in exchange for land in Mississippi. The President gave his representatives one instruction, “fail not to make a treaty,”  Andrew Jackson was not a man to accept excuses or failure and Major Eaton and Colonel Coffee would have known this better than most after serving under Jackson during the Creek Wars and the War of 1812.