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U.S. agents such as Silas Dinsmoor lived among the Choctaw, represented their interests, and carried out U.S. policy. Their duties included surveying Choctaw land, preventing illegal settlement, encouraging greater dependence on modern farming practices, collecting tribal debts owed to American companies, and ensuring that the Choctaw were paid for land ceded to the U.S. The agency moved four times to remain within the shrinking boundaries of the Choctaw Nation, and it stood here along the Natchez Trace from 1807 until just after the Treaty of Doak’s Stand in 1820.
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