 This area included western Kentucky and western Tennessee, both areas not heavily populated by members of the tribe.They remained in their primary homeland of northern Mississippi and northwest Alabama until the 1830s.After decades of increasing pressure by federal and state governments to cede their land, as European Americans were eager to move into their territory and had already begun to do so as squatters or under fraudulent land sales, the Chickasaw finally agreed to cede their remaining Mississippi Homeland to the U.S. under the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek and relocate west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory.