A plot of land in present-day northern Oklahoma. Purchased from the Cherokee Nation by the United States in 1891, it was opened to settlement in 1893.
Cherokee Strip
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A plot of land in present-day northern Oklahoma. Purchased from the Cherokee Nation by the United States in 1891, it was opened to settlement in 1893.
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Cherokee Strip, a 12,000-square-mile area in Oklahoma between 96 and 100 degrees west longitude and 36 and 37 degrees north latitude. Guaranteed to the Cherokees by treaties of 1828 and 1833 as an outlet—the term "strip" is actually inaccurate—it was not to be permanently settled. The treaty of 1866 compelled the Cherokee Nation to sell portions to friendly Indians.
The Cherokee Nation leased the strip in 1883 to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association for five years at $100,000 a year. In 1891 the United States purchased the Cherokee Strip for $8,595,736.12. Opened by a land run on 16 September 1893, it became part of the Oklahoma Territory.
Bibliography
Marquis, James. The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Originally published New York: Viking Press, 1945.
Savage, William W. The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association: Federal Regulation and the Cattleman's Last Frontier. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973.
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Cherokee Strip or Cherokee Outlet, a narrow piece of land in N Oklahoma. Bounded on the north by the Kansas border, it has an area of more than 6 million acres (2.4 million hectares). Measuring some 50 mi (80 km) wide, it extends about 200 mi (322 km) east from the eastern end of the state's panhandle. The area once constituted the western extension of Cherokee Nation lands and was sold to the United States in 1891. The Strip was opened to non-Native American settlement on Sept. 19, 1893, precipitating the greatest land run in U.S. history, in which more than 50,000 staked claims. Oklahoma cities that sprang from the prairie that day include Alva, Enid, Ponca City, and Woodward. The Cherokee Strip was included in the Oklahoma Territory and later (1907) became part of the new state.
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"Cherokee Strip" redirects here. For other uses, see Cherokee Strip (disambiguation).
The Cherokee Outlet, more often referred to as the Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States. It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians. It was about 225 miles (362 km) long and in 1891 contained 8,144,682.91 acres (32,960 km²). The Cherokee Strip was, in actuality, a two mile strip running along the northern border of much of the Cherokee Outlet and which was the result of a surveying error.
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Formation
The Treaty of New Echota, May 23, 1836, gave the land to the Cherokees as a perpetual outlet to travel and hunt in the West. This was in addition to the land given to the Cherokees for settlement after their arrival from their home in Georgia.
Loss of Cherokee control
After the Civil War, the Cherokees were required to renegotiate their treaties due to their alliance with the Confederacy:[1]
The treaty, ratified on July 19, 1866, allowed the United States government to dispose of the land: "The United States may settle friendly Indians in any part of the Cherokee country west of 96° ... to be paid for to the Cherokee Nation ... after which their jurisdiction and right of possession to terminate forever..."
The settlement of several tribes in the eastern part of the Cherokee Outlet closed it from the Cherokee Nation and left them unable to use it for grazing or hunting. After the Civil War, Texans began driving their cattle across the Outlet to markets in Kansas and soon others began using the land for grazing. In the early 1880s, with the support of the Cherokees, the ranchers using the land organized and began fencing individual claims. The Cherokees felt the organization would help them collect their rents.
In 1883 the cattlemen finally incorporated under the laws of Kansas as The Cherokee Live Stock Association.[2] They negotiated a five-year lease for the entire outlet for $100,000 per year, payable semi-annually in advance. At the end of the five years, the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council put the lease up for bid, hoping to get a better price. The Cherokee Live Stock Association eventually got the bid for $200,000 per year. But it was not to be completed.
Cherokee Strip land run
In 1889, Congress authorized a commission to persuade the Cherokees to cede their complete title to the land. After a great amount of pressure, and confirmed by a treaty Congress approved March 17, 1893, the Cherokees agreed, for "the sum of $8,595,736.12, over and above all other sums" to turn title over to the United States government. On September 16, 1893, the eastern end of the Cherokee Outlet was settled in the Cherokee Strip land run, the largest land run in the United States and the largest event of its kind in the history of the world. This section of land is still known as the Cherokee Strip, and the label has often been used to refer to the whole of the Cherokee Outlet.
Seat Configuration in a Legislature
A "Cherokee Strip"[1] may also refer to a seating arrangement in a legislative body where members of one party sit on the other party's side of the aisle.
References
- ^ "OKLAHOMA: A Foreordained Commonwealth". Oklahoma Historical Society. 1936. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/v014p022.html. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
- ^ Savage, William (1990). The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association: Federal Regulation and the Cattleman's Last Frontier. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2271-4.
External links
- Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid, OK
- Cherokee Strip Museum, Perry, OK
- Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1889
- Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, Arkansas City, KS
- Map of Cherokee Strip & Cherokee Outlet
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