On this date – 124 years ago – at high noon, the world exploded into Indian Territory, now Oklahoma ... also known as “Pawnee Bill.” In the 1880s, Lillie was in show business with William ...

Over the years, the United States claimed more Native land and Indian Territory shrank to roughly the boundaries of modern-day Oklahoma. In the 1880s, it shrank even further when the U.S. switched ...

Another act, passed in 1834, created what became known as Indian Territory; it included modern-day Oklahoma. The laws helped set the stage for mass, forced migrations of tribes, as the U.S ...

While the National Archives dates this flier to circa 1880, the unassigned ... homesteads in the middle of Indian Territory. The government acted in 1890 to create Oklahoma Territory, which ...

Indian Territory, which occupied all Oklahoma minus the panhandle, was almost 44 million acres of fertile rolling prairies, rivers and groves of enormous trees. Several Indian nations already ...

Many Oklahomans know something of such efforts in the late 1880s and early ... for the creation of the Territory of Lincoln out of what is today the state of Oklahoma. The same bill was introduced ...

But they returned, again and again. Delegates from 34 Indigenous tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, in 1880. (National Archives) Among those intruders was ...

Actually, many significant battles took place in what is now Oklahoma. The greatest battle of the war in Indian Territory was the Battle of Honey Springs, which was fought July 17, 1863 ...

“Our ancestors who were resilient resisted, and they fought for their freedom,” said Rhonda Grayson founder of the Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History It’s a ...

and would have become its first congressman if Indian Territory had become the state of Sequoyah instead of being combined with Oklahoma Territory into the one state of Oklahoma. Thomas was ...