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The reservation was established in 1867 due to the provisions of the Medicine Lodge Treaty. The lands were taken from the Chickasaws and Choctaws in 1866 by the government so they may settle the Comanche and their allied tribes in what has become South Western Oklahoma.
This land consisted of 2,968,893 acres and was surveyed at 4,638 square miles. The Wichita mountains are in good view in this land, and a network of streams is located throughout the land. There is plentiful Mesquite, oak, and hackberry trees and several different types of wildlife are known to have lived in the area which included Buffalo, elk, bear, antelope, white-tailed deer, panthers, wolves, jackrabbits, otter, prairie dogs and racoons and many other species of wildlife.
In the waterways of the area there are numerous types of fish such as trout and bass, and in the areas of grasslands there is plenty of quail and other wild game.
The reservation system was done away with in 1901 due to the federal policy at the time that decided to allot individual Indian families with 160 acre plots of land so that the land could be opened for settlement. The federal government pressured the tribes to sell lands remaining after individual allotment at $1.25 an acre.
These circumstances were as a result of what became known as the Cherokee Commission whom drafted what is known as the Jerome Agreement.
Quanah Parker lobbied Congress and the President to buy the lands for $2.50 an acre to bring a better price, and was successful in raising the individual allotment size from the first proposed size of 100 acres to 160.
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