allotment
White settlers also sought to take over the area they called the Unassigned Lands, a two-million-acre swath of central Oklahoma the U.S. had forced the Muscogee and Seminoles—who had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War—to cedemore than a decade earlier. Would-be settlers known as thesquatted on the land and, after years of lobbying, the federal government agreed to open it to white settlement in 1889.
As these debates raged, white settlers continued flocking to Oklahoma—and into Indian Territory, where they were allowed to settle on surplus lands they purchased from tribal governments. Eventually, they far outnumbered Native residents., which announced that tribal governments would be abolished in March 1906 and forced the Five Tribes to accept the allotment law from which they’d been exempt. Five Tribes leaders realized they would soon have no control or federal recognition.
Racism, ethnic cleansing, hamlet ting and eventual genocide ….
More history not told in school.
Wish there was at least one state governed by Native Americans! indigenous USA
All we needed was one state. To be run by the natives for the natives. And in return the USA would have had millions of soldiers ready to serve. Soldiers raised on hunting, fishing and scouting. What could have been.
LakotaMan1
Nothing belongs to anyone here on earth. We are borrowing from the planet. The day humans think they own anything, is the day that earth rules out. A force greater than all humans combined. History played out of ownership and yet, wars broke out. We are no match to nature.
Traffic jams are boring and destructive Ggg2022
The book Killer of the Flower Moons speaks volumes on how corrupt people were over indigenous people.
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