Old Chief is Dead

I was reading this past week that Phillip Martin, Chief of the Mississippi Choctaws passed away. He had been chief for twenty eight years. (Philidelphia Mississippi)
I remember reading that the last huge chunk of Mississippi under Choctaw control was ceded to the government 27 September, 1830 at the "Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek." The location is near today's Macon, Mississippi.

Shortly after, they took their belongings and African slaves to Oklahoma Territory.
Greenwood Lefleur, a half breed Frenchman was one of the chiefs represented along with Mushulatubbee, and Little Leader. Lefleur "the Greenwood Flower" never left Mississippi. He had become wealthy and was heavily involved in State Politics. His name slowly became Leflore, probably because whites with Scott, Irish, and English backgrounds didn't like the French pronunciation.
One would assume that Greenwood Mississippi is named for Lefleur.
It's interesting that the flower signed away the people's land yet stayed behind.
The same was true in leadership of the Chickasaws of North Mississippi, West Tennessee.
George Colbert was a halfbreed Scott who became wealthy. The Colbert's operated what was called a stand, (a stop on Natchez Trace) and Colbert's Ferry on the Tennessee River.

The Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma furnished troops to the Confederacy during the war. They felt they had gotten a raw deal from the U.S. Govt. and felt that a Confederacy of Southern States would be more to their liking.

I don't know how Phillip Martin's small Mississippi Band managed to stay in their homeland.