Edited sentence: After removal to the Indian Territory the Chickasaws were reluctant to settle in their district, composed of the west and central area of the Choctaw lands.Blake led a company of Dragoons from Fort Towson to the site of Fort Washita in late 1841.Captain T.In 1838 the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Western Territory, William Armstrong, asked the War Department to build a military post near the mouth of the Washita River to secure the area so the Chickasaws could move into their assigned territory.The area was not secure against the plains Indians