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Greenwood Leflore (1800-1865), one of the
district chiefs of the Choctaw Nation, had promoted assimilation and,
after the State of Mississippi extended its authority over the Choctaw
Nation, promoted removal. He was influential in negotiation of the
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, whereby the Choctaws agreed to give up
their land in Mississippi and remove west of the Mississippi River.
During removal, he served as a conductor for parties of Choctaws
moving to the West, but he lost his influence with the Choctaws
because of his pro-removal stand. Thus he chose to take remain in
Mississippi on the land allotment he received under the treaty. He
became a planter and entrepreneur and served in the Mississippi State
Senate from 1841 to 1844.
Source: Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of
American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), 11:
143-144.
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