Editing Choctaw (section)

===Treaties===
{{Main|List of Choctaw Treaties}}
Land was the most valuable asset, which the Native Americans held in collective stewardship. The United States systematically obtained Choctaw land for conventional European-American settlement through treaties, legislation, and threats of warfare. Although the Choctaw made treaties with Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Confederate States of America; the nation signed only nine treaties with the United States.<ref name=treaties>{{Cite web| url = http://www.choctaw.org/aboutMBCI/history/treaties.html| title = Treaties| access-date = 6 February 2008| last = Ferguson| first = Bob| year = 2001| publisher = Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians}}</ref> Some treaties which the US made with other nations, such as the [[Treaty of San Lorenzo]], indirectly affected the Choctaw.