October 18, 1820

The Choctaw reluctantly agreed to move to Arkansas by agreeing to the Treaty of Doak’s Stand in Mississippi. The United States’ representative at the treaty negotiations, future president Andrew Jackson, paid little attention to the map and agreed to transfer to the Choctaw Nation a large part of southwest Arkansas—at part that already had been surveyed and sold by the U.S. government to settlers. This caused an uproar resulting in several other treaties, one of which left Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in Oklahoma.