If you had stood here in the mid 1800's, on your right would have been Arkansas Territory and on your left, a domain traded to the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw and the Seminole Nation for their ancestral land to the east. The stories, the suffering, the death and devastation, the plight of these Indian Nations, and for what?.... to satisfy the greed and the insatiable land hunger of the white settlers. | Fort Smith served as the last outpost for the distribution of goods to the Indians before they entered the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma. |
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