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Shawneetown

McCurtain County
Location: on US-259 near US-70 junction in Idabel
Topics: American Indians; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

In the early 1800s a group of Absentee Shawnee Indians occupied a site near the Red River, southwest of present-day Idabel. The Shawnees departed in the 1830s when the area was ceded to the Choctaws.


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