Before the Land Lottery
Before the Founding of Lawton

The Land Lottery and Land Auction
Land Lottery and Auction

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Teaching Materials
Teaching Materials

Credits

Here's the Story:
Before the Founding of Lawton
Americans Move West in the 1800s 
The Beginning of the Forced Removal
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
The Five Civilized Tribes:  The Trails of Tears
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, 1830
The Treaty of Doaksville, 1834
Indian Territory, 1855-1866 
The Leavenworth Treaty, 1865
The Reconstruction Treaties of 1866-1867
The Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1867
Ten Bears, Yamaparika Comanche Leader
The Battle of the Washita, 1868
The Battle of Adobe Walls
The Battle of Adobe Walls Recorded in a Deerskin Painting
The End of the Indian Wars
Reservation Life
"Grass Money"
White Settlement, 1889 -1906
The Jerome Commission
Quanah Parker and the Jerome Commission
160 Acres for Each Indian
The Final Loss of Land – The Big Pasture
Things to Do:
The Louisiana Purchase
Who's Who in the West
Where in the West
Games to Play:
Hangman
Learn More About:
"The Medicine Lodge Treaty" Re-Telling by Tawnya Herman
"Geronimo" Re-Telling by Carla Mendez
"The Buffalo Soldiers" Re-Telling by Fostina Paolino
"Miners of the Wichitas" Re-Telling by Stan Melby
"Quanah Parker" Re-Telling by Missie Worden
"The Meers Fault: Earthquakes in Oklahoma" Re-Telling by Teri Philley
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