Mississippi homelands in 1831 to 1833 to Indian Territory, later to become Oklahoma. A smaller group of Mississippi Choctaw were coerced to migrating to Oklahoma in 1908.

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is the third-largest tribe in the United States with more than 225,000 tribal citizens. A total of 233,126 people live within these boundaries, with its tribal jurisdictional area comprising 10.5 counties