Before the Founding of Lawton

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The U.S. made many treaties with the Choctaws.  The last treaty signed was the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.  By the end, the Choctaws had agreed to give up all of their lands east of the Mississippi.
 

Each of the native tribes got a new piece of land as a trade.  They got the new land because they agreed to leave their old homes.  All of the new land was west of the Mississippi River. The state of Arkansas was the border of the Choctaw's new land on the east side.  The west border was the 100th meridian.  (This is still the west border of Oklahoma today.)

The Red River was the south border.  The Canadian and Arkansas Rivers formed the north border.