A new documentary, "Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning," about the iconic Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, will premiere on The History Channel on July 7. The film is executive produced by LeBron James' ...

and Cherokee peoples were forced out of Georgia and Alabama and into the Oklahoma Indian Territory. The trading post and cattle town didn’t attract much white settlement until the 1880s ...

Barnes, the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma chief, is among a group pushing ... Debt, inadequate funding and the removal of Pottawatomie tribes to Indian Territory led to its closure.

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 ...

One infamous land dispute in the late 1800s resulted in a piece of Texas called Greer County becoming a part of Oklahoma ... were set aside as the Indian Territory, lands reserved ...

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 ...

Image Delegates from 34 tribes gathered at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, later known as Oklahoma, circa 1880.Credit...Corbis, via Getty Images The Old Ones have always reminded us ...

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 ...

One of several African-American deputy U.S. marshals who rode the bloody trails of the Indian Territory that eventually became Oklahoma ... skill and daring in the 1880s and ’90s.

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 ...