Taking of tribal land was 'civilized'

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002

When thousands of acres of Kiowa and Comanche lands to white settlement in 1901, Oklahomans decided a land run was "not very civilized." So instead they held a land lottery instead.

A $350,000 in Lawton depicts that event. Each settler was carved out 160 acres out of thousands in the original Kiowa and Comanche reservations.

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Sculpture depicts Lawton land lottery (The Daily Oklahoman 10/2)