Provisions of this agreement were later incorporated into the Curtis Act of 1898, which provided for widespread allotment of communal tribal lands.
These actions were taken to extinguish Native American tribal claims to the land in order to enable the territory to be admitted as a state.
In addition, the federal government representatives believed that adoption of subsistence farming by individual households, along the majority model of European Americans, would help these peoples assimilate and prosper.
The Curtis Act required that the Atoka Agreement be resubmitted to the voters of both nations.
[1] Charles N. Haskell later told an interviewer that the Atoka Agreement "... was made with the express understanding that it was a step towards statehood,... and went so far as to specify that 'the lands now occupied by the Five Civilized Tribes shall be prepared for admission as a state.'