Download or read book Land Lottery 1901 written by Ardeth Elling Denney and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Reno Land District 1901 Land Lottery written by Julie Peterson Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State of Sequoyah written by Donald L. Fixico and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to form their own, Indian-led state. Leaders of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Muscogees, and Seminoles drafted a constitution, which eligible voters then ratified. In the end, Congress denied their request, but the movement that fueled their efforts transcends that single defeat. Researched and interpreted by distinguished Native historian Donald L. Fixico, this book tells the remarkable story of how the state of Sequoyah movement unfolded and the extent to which it remains alive today. Fixico tells how the Five Nations, after removal to the west, negotiated treaties with the U.S. government and lobbied Congress to allow them to retain communal control of their lands as sovereign nations. In the wake of the Civil War, while a dozen bills in Congress proposed changing the status of Indian Territory, the Five Tribes sought strength in unity. The Boomer movement and seven land dispensations—beginning with the famous run of 1889—nevertheless eroded their borders and threatened their cultural and political autonomy. President Theodore Roosevelt ultimately declared his support for the merging of Indian Territory with Oklahoma Territory, paving the way for Oklahoma statehood in 1907—and shattering the state of Sequoyah dream. Yet the Five Tribes persevered. Fixico concludes his narrative by highlighting recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, most notably McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), that have reaffirmed the sovereignty of Indian nations over their lands and people—a principal inherent in the Sequoyah movement. Did the story end in 1907? Could the Five Tribes revive their plan for separate statehood? Fixico leaves the reader to ponder this intriguing possibility.
Download or read book The Formation of the State of Oklahoma 1803 1906 written by Roy Gittinger and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wil s Claim written by Deanne Durrett and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Christian suspense set in the time of the 1901 Oklahoma Land Lottery, Callie Shepherd refuses to share her husband's dream of homesteading free land. When Wil heads for Oklahoma Territory to register for the lottery, he leaves without a proper goodbye. When he doesn't return, Callie refuses to believe her husband is dead. She worries that he may be wounded and bleeding somewhere. Or maybe he decided to settle in the new land without her. When she receives notice that Wil has drawn a low number in the lottery, she knows he will show up to stake his claim if he is able. Confident that she has the skills to protect herself, she heads for Oklahoma Territory alone in defiance of her twin brother's strong objection. She must find out... Is she a widow or a wife? Her brother Cliff and Wil's best friend Toby catch up with the over-crowded train, and a few days later, they stand nearby when Wil's number is called and a tall, redhead, looking much like Wil and wearing his turquoise hatband, steps up to the map to mark his claim. It isn't Wil. Callie's hope vanishes as her faith fades, and the void is filled with anger toward the man who killed Wil and stole his claim. Determined to take revenge and recover Wil's hatband, she lets anger take control. Armed with the guns her grandfather gave her, and confident in her gun skills, Callie ventures deeper into the rugged, untamed land filled with outlaw gangs, claim jumpers, and relentless prospectors. Cliff and Toby try, but can anyone stop her from becoming a victim of the lawless or carrying out a plan that is likely to put her on the wrong side of the law?
Download or read book The Republic for Which It Stands written by Richard White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
Download or read book The Statutes of New South Wales public and Private Passed During the Year with Detailed Index written by New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lone Wolf V Hitchcock written by Blue Clark and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S. relations with Indian tribes are Corn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, and Lone Wolf. Each exemplifies a problem or a process as the United States defined and codified its politics toward Indians. The importance of the Lone Wolf case of 1903 resides in its enunciation of the "plenary power" doctrine?that the United States could unilaterally act in violation of its own treaties and that Congress could dispose of land recognized by treaty as belonging to individual tribes. In 1892 the Kiowas and related Comanche and Plains Apache groups were pressured into agreeing to divide their land into allotments under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887. Lone Wolf, a Kiowa band leader, sued to halt the land division, citing the treaties signed with the United States immediately after the Civil War. In 1902 the case reached the Supreme Court, which found that Congress could overturn the treaties through the doctrine of plenary power. As he recounts the Lone Wolf case, Clark reaches beyond the legal decision to describe the Kiowa tribe itself and its struggles to cope with Euro-American pressure on its society, attitudes, culture, economic system, and land base. The story of the case therefore also becomes the history of the tribe in the late nineteenth century. The Lone Wolf case also necessarily becomes a study of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 in operation; under the terms of the Dawes Act and successor legislation, almost two-thirds of Indian lands passed out of their hands within a generation. Understanding how this happened in the case of the Kiowa permits a nuanced view of the well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous allotment effort.
Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building an American Empire written by Paul Frymer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.
Download or read book The Statutes of New South Wales written by New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Land Lottery written by Southern Asylum Land Company (Hernando, Miss.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L W Marks written by Alvin O. Turner and published by Mongrel Empire Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of L. W. Marks, an early 20th century progressive Baptist leader, minister, publisher, businessman, and mayor of Edmond, OK.
Download or read book Capture These Indians for the Lord written by Tash Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, this book details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Indian Territory/Oklahoma and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership"--Provided by publisher"--
Download or read book Prairie Tree Letters written by David C. Watkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the East to the far West these are personal accounts of migrations and communities that created the United States. Readers who have affection for history and the workings of human nature will be captured by the rich content and style of this collection of letters and photographs. Informal in style, the emotional tone set by the editors commentary provides context and highlights sustaining threads of family and community. Most letters have not been previously published and most were written over 100 years ago. They were authored primarily by members of the editors' paternal hereditary lines; Watkins, Clark, Hirst & Proffitt. The lives represented occupy the history and much of the geography of the nation. No ancestor achieved any degree of fame, or fortune. Unconscious of being actors in great events they are just there; as they were; in the majesty of drama written by ordinary people. The collection is of particular interest to genealogists seeking information of mid and late nineteenth century families living in Ohio, Wisconsin, the Southwestern U.S. and the Pacific Northwest. One may even hope to discover their proverbial "brick wall" breached by a gossipy comment.
Download or read book Oklahoma Our Home written by Gibbs Smith, Publisher and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklahoma, Our Home is a 4th grade Oklahoma history textbook. The outline for this book is based on the Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for social studies and teaches history, people in societies, geography, economics, government, citizenship rights and responsibilities, and social studies skills and methods. The book places the state's historical events in the context of our nation's history. The student edition has many features such as Words to Understand, timelines, Oklahoma Portraits, In-Text activities, Linking the Past to the Present, and What Do You Think? discussion questions deliver the content in an effective and inviting way, making history come to life. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 History Close to Home Chapter 2 The Land We Call Home Chapter 3 The First Oklahomans Chapter 4 The Great Encounter Chapter 5 Indian Territory Chapter 6 War and Peace in Indian Territory Chapter 7 From Open Range to Farmland Chapter 8 Green Pastures and Black Gold Chapter 9 Statehood! The First 40 Years Chapter 10 Modern Oklahoma Chapter 11 Government for All of Us Chapter 12 Making a Living in Oklahoma
Download or read book The Olden Days written by LaVerne Hutchens Bish and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history of LaVerne Hutchens Bish.
