Editing Canadian County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
In 1859, the United States expelled the [[Caddo|Caddo Nation]] of Louisiana from its Brazos reservation in Texas and relocated it to what would eventually become Canadian County, Oklahoma.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Klos|first=George|date=April 1994|title='Our People Could Not Distinguish One Tribe from Another': The 1859 Expulsion of the Reserve Indians from Texas|journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly|volume=97|issue=4|pages=615–16|jstor=30242464}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Franks|first=Kenny Arthur|title=Oklahoma: The Land and Its People|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|year=1997|isbn=9780806199443|location=[[Norman, Oklahoma]]|pages=18}}</ref> ''Showetat'', the last hereditary chief of the Caddo, set up his camp here and is considered Canadian County's first permanent resident. (Union City developed near his camp site.)<ref name="EOHC-CanadianCo"/>

The federal government relocated the [[Wichita people|Wichita]] tribe to this same part of Indian Territory in 1861. By the [[Treaty of Medicine Lodge]], the United States assigned the land west of the Caddo and Wichita to the [[Cheyenne]] and [[Arapaho]] tribes. They were relocated from Colorado in 1869. The Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency (later renamed the Darlington Agency) was established in 1870.

Canadian County was formed in 1889 as County Four of [[Oklahoma Territory]] as part of the Oklahoma Organic Act, which created [[Oklahoma Territory]] from part of [[Indian Territory]].<ref name="EOHC-CanadianCo">{{Cite web |title=Canadian County {{!}} The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CA038 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Oklahoma Historical Society {{!}} OHS |language=en-us}}</ref> It was named after the [[Canadian River]], which runs through the county.

This county was settled by European-Americans after the [[Land Run of 1889|April 22, 1889, land run]], which gave away expropriated Native American land.<ref name="EOHC-CanadianCo"/>  It was expanded by a second land run in [[Land Run of 1892|1892]]. In 1902, after distribution of communal lands among households of the Cheyenne and Arapaho, their 'surplus' lands were opened to European-American settlement.<ref name="EOHC-CanadianCo"/> El Reno was chosen as the county seat over competitors Reno City, Frisco, and Canadian City.

The county was the location of the last great battle of the Cheyenne and Arapaho against [[United States Army]] forces. <!--  -->