Download or read book The Railroads and the Tribal Lands written by Ira Granville Clark and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lust for Land written by Kathryn G. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the significance of the cattle trails and railroads in the opening of Indian Territory to settlers, between 1830, when the cattle trails began, and 1899, after the land runs. The project examines the interaction of cattle drovers, railroads prospectors, settlers, and Native Americans and the resulting effects on tribal sovereignty and land ownership. It argues that because of the cattle drives across Indian Territory, more exposure of the unique lands of Indian Territory created interest in the area. Reconstruction after the Civil War also aided in the exposure to Indian lands. Individual chapters over the significance of the Civil War in Indian Territory, cattle trails across the territory, and the Reconstruction legislation allowing railroads into the area, introduce the relationship between the Native Americans, cattle drovers, railroad men, and settlers as the area garnered more and more attention. The narrative will explain extenuating circumstances that opened Native American lands to settlement and further the study of Oklahoma history. This thesis engages several forms of history, mainly cultural, political, industrial, and transnational histories. It answers numerous questions about the plight of Native Americans, the American ideal of Manifest Destiny, land usage, rebuilding after a devastating war, and governmental politics, including the following: In what ways did the cattle trails herald the railroads in Indian Territory? In what ways did the cattle trails influence the economy of Indian Territory? In what ways did the cattle trails influence the development of Indian Territory? In what ways did Native Americans respond to the cattle drives across their land? In what ways did federal legislation force railroad access across Indian Territory? In what ways did Native Americans respond to railroad construction in Indian Territory? In what ways did railroads influence the development of Indian Territory? In what ways did railroads influence the allotment process encouraged by federal legislation? These questions and more will provide insight into the relationships between Native Americans, cattle men, railroad men, and settlers.This thesis includes four chapters designed to explore the topic thoroughly. The introduction will present the topic and provide information regarding the area and will conclude with an argument for the use of the cattle trails and railroads as the focal point for this thesis. The first chapter will provide an extensive historiography of the importance of both the cattle trails and railroads to the development of the area building up to the land runs. Chapter 2 describes the legislation used to define the confines of the territory, used to force the removal of the Native Americans to the area, used to punish the Natives after the Civil War and used to usher in the silent migration that came with the forced railroads through the area. Chapter 3 describes the three major cattle trails that traversed the territory and how this exposure influenced many people to look at Indian Territory as a paradise for their use not for the Natives it supposedly belonged to. Chapter 4 is dedicated to the advancement of the railroads into the area and how this changed the outlook of Indian Territory. The conclusion to the thesis will present a final statement about the role played by the cattle men, cattle trails, railroad prospectors, and the railroads, in securing the land for settlement by non-Native Americans in land runs across the Territory.
Download or read book Solutionary Rail written by Bill Moyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Download or read book Additional Lands for Railroad Companies on Indian Reservations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads Through the Indian Territory written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Choctaws in Oklahoma written by Clara Sue Kidwell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe's subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws' remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.
Download or read book Empire s Tracks written by Manu Karuka and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
Download or read book American Indian Treaties written by Francis Paul Prucha and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today—hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government, until now there has been no comprehensive history of these treaties and their role in American life. Francis Paul Prucha, a leading authority on the history of American Indian affairs, argues that the treaties were a political anomaly from the very beginning. The term "treaty" implies a contract between sovereign independent nations, yet Indians were always in a position of inequality and dependence as negotiators, a fact that complicates their current attempts to regain their rights and tribal sovereignty. Prucha's impeccably researched book, based on a close analysis of every treaty, makes possible a thorough understanding of a legal dilemma whose legacy is so palpably felt today.
Download or read book Dream Tracks written by T. C. McLuhan and published by New York : Abrams. This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopi, Navajo, and Rio Grande pueblo life (crafts, costumes, and ceremonies) are explored in exquisite detail.
Download or read book Railroads Across Indian Territory written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I ve Been Here All the While written by Alaina E. Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.
Download or read book Railroad Through Indian Territory written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Railroads and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Indian Kansas written by H. Craig Miner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miner and Unrau show Kansas at midcentury to be a moral testing ground where the drama of Indian inheritance was played out. They related how railroad men, land speculators, and timber operations came to be firmly entrenched on Indian land in territorial Kansas.
Download or read book The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians written by Richard H. Frost and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the railroad placed social, cultural, and economic burdens on Pueblo Indians
Download or read book Relief of Indians Occupying Railroad Lands in Arizona New Mexico Or California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Race to Indian Territory written by Robert Collins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As railroads crossed 1860s Kansas, laws were passed that would allow only one railroad to lay track across Indian Territory south to Texas. Three railroads, the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf; the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston; and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, raced to be first and to become a national line. The Race to Indian Territory recounts the story from early Kansas history. It tells of those important and interesting men involved in the race and the towns the tracks came to. It separates fact from legend, and reveals the race's surprising outcome.
Download or read book Railroads and Coal written by Robert J. Voss and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that railroad companies, endeavoring to build across Indian territory and gain access to its coal, faced considerable legal and political challenges. Complicated practical concerns over coal and railroads challenged managers, federal authorities, and Native American leaders attempting to balance access to coal, income from taxes and legal frameworks. This tenuous balance toppled at the end of the nineteenth century in the strike of 1894 when some Native American coal leaseholders, coal operators, and the railroads turned to the federal government to help break the strike.
