Because we were all forced down here to live where no one else wanted to be so the white man could take our natural resorces for his own.
They moved to Indian Territory in eastern selections of present day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
The Confederates.
The 1830 Indian Removal Act enabled the US to forcibly remove not only the so-called Five Civilized Tribes from their traditional homelands but other tribes as well to Indian Territory, which later became the state of Oklahoma.
The eight tribes, often referring to the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and others, were forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma during the 1830s as part of the Trail of Tears. This relocation was a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which aimed to open their ancestral lands in the Southeast to white settlers. Oklahoma became known as Indian Territory, designated for the settlement of Native American tribes.
Because that was the area designated by Congress to be the territory into which Indian tribes were to be relocated.
They moved to Indian Territory in eastern selections of present day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Oklahoma.
The Confederates.
Tribes in the East were moved into Indian Territory, what became Oklahoma. It became known as The Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee and the Pawnee
Oklahoma.
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, And Chickosaw. Also known as the "five civilized tribes"
The eastern part of the state of Oklahoma is land that was designated Indian Territory, to which many indigenous tribes of the Southeastern states were relocated. An earlier form, Indian Country, included parts of several states along the Mississippi River.
The 1830 Indian Removal Act enabled the US to forcibly remove not only the so-called Five Civilized Tribes from their traditional homelands but other tribes as well to Indian Territory, which later became the state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's borders were primarily shaped by historical treaties, land runs, and territorial divisions. The state was originally part of various Native American territories and was later designated as the Indian Territory. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state, incorporating land from the Indian Territory and parts of the Oklahoma Territory, which had been established through earlier land runs and settlements. The borders were further defined by the specific agreements made with Native American tribes and the U.S. government's decisions regarding land allocation.