Historical Marker
Atoka
Atoka County · Oklahoma
Erected by Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1949
The Atoka Agreement was signed here on April 23, 1897, after more than three weeks of talks between the Dawes Commission and delegations of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. It divided both nations' lands into individual allotments, gave freedmen and their descendants smaller ones, reserved the coal and asphalt lands to be sold or leased for the tribes, and set March 4, 1906, as the end of both governments. Chickasaw voters rejected it that December. The Curtis Act of 1898 sent it back to the people, and a joint election approved it on August 24, 1898.
What the plaque says
Atoka Named for Capt. Atoka, Choctaw leader and signer of Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, 1830, pro- viding Choctaw removal from Mis- sissippi to Indian Ter. Atoka County organized in Choctaw Nation 1854. Important Atoka Agreement with U. S., to close Choctaw and Chickasaw govts., signed in this City, 1897. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1949
Where it stands
34.39986, -96.11741 · Directions
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