...(1909) : "beginning near Fort Smith where the Arkansas boundary crosses the Arkansas River, running thence to the source of the Canadian fork; if in the...or to those limits; thence due south to Red River, and down Red River to the west boundary of the Territory of Arkansas; thence north along that line...

...boundaries: "Beginning near Fort Smith, where the Arkansas boundary crosses the Arkansas. River; running thence to the source of the Canadian fork, if in the limits of the US, or to those limits; thence due South to Red River, and down Red River and to the W. boundary of...

...made to the Choctaws described one of the lines of the lands granted to those Indians as " running thence to the source of the Canadian Fork, if in the limits of tlie United States, or to those limits, thence due south to the Red River." This grant was accepted...

...of the south fork of the Canadian River, " thence west along the main Canadian River to its source, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits ; and thence, due south to Red River, and down Red River to the beginning." Here was a repetition of...

...the description of the western boundary thereof to read as follows: "to the source of the Canadian, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits." The 1820 treaty described the western boundary of their cession thus: "extending up the Arkansas to...

...on it, beginning near Kort Smith where the Arkansas boundary erossea the. Arlutimiii Kiver, runnini; thence to the source of the Canadian fork; if in the limits nf the I'nited State.s, or to those limits; thence due south to Ked Kiver. and down Ked Uiver to the...

...the mouth of the South Fork of the Canadian; thence west along the main Canadian River to its source, if in the limits of the United States or to those limits, and thence due south to Red River and down Red River to the beginning." 36 Chickasaw Memorial to the...

...beginning nenr >*ort Smith where the Arknn^n boundary rio--M the Ai kiin-iM Ttivrr. running thrnce to the source of the Canadian fork; if in the limits of the I'niied States, or to those limit-; thence due south to Ked Hiver. mid down Hnd Kiver to the west boundary...

...the mouth of the south fork of the Canadian; thence west along the main Canadian River to its source, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits; and thence due south to Red River, and down Red River to the beginning. ARTICLE 3. The Chickasaws agree...

...the problem in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek by defining the Choctaws' western lands as running "to the source of the Canadian fork; if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits" (emphasis added).1 In the 1855 treaty, the problem of the western boundary was ostensibly settled when...