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Relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes
- What was to ultimately become Tulsa was part of Indian Territory, which was created as part of the relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes —the Choctaw, Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, and Seminole peoples.
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What was to ultimately become Tulsa was part of Indian Territory, which was created as part of the relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes —the Choctaw, Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, and Seminole peoples.
Jan 15, 2010 · The Oklahoma Territory Organic Act even more closely defined Indian Territory, reducing it to slightly more than the eastern half of the present state. In the 1905 Sequoyah Convention, Indian leaders sought to bypass the territorial process and bring about separate statehood for Indian Territory.
Sep 4, 2024 · The Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Chickasaw tribes were forcibly moved to this area between 1830 and 1843, and an act of June 30, 1834, set aside the land as Indian country (later known as Indian Territory).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state.
Jun 20, 2024 · The story behind why Oklahoma is called Indian Territory is rooted in the dark history of institutionalized racism and forced relocation. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations, collectively known as the Five Tribes, were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the ...
Indian Territory was primarily the home of the Plains Indians until the Five Tribes were relocated there in the first half of the nineteenth century. The domain of the Five Tribes was reduced to approximately the eastern half of present Oklahoma by the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866.
On February 17, 1879, in a letter to the Chicago Times, Boudinot claimed that fourteen million acres of Indian Territory, including the Unassigned Lands, should be considered public domain and opened to non-Indian settlers.
