Indian Territory, which occupied all Oklahoma minus the panhandle, was almost 44 million acres of fertile rolling prairies, rivers and groves of enormous trees. Several Indian nations already ...

Wright came to Indian Territory to visit a friend in Caddo ... Savanna and opened what the book "Open Wider, Please" said was Oklahoma's first dental office in Savanna, a community with more ...

Another act, passed in 1834, created what became known as Indian Territory; it included modern-day Oklahoma. The laws helped set the stage for mass, forced migrations of tribes, as the U.S ...

While the National Archives dates this flier to circa 1880, the unassigned ... homesteads in the middle of Indian Territory. The government acted in 1890 to create Oklahoma Territory, which ...

If history had taken a different turn, the place now known as Oklahoma could have seen an even stronger win for Native American sovereignty. That area was once known as Indian Territory ...

Image Delegates from 34 tribes gathered at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, later known as Oklahoma, circa 1880.Credit...Corbis, via Getty Images The Old Ones have always reminded us ...

Before Oklahoma was a U.S. state, it was Indian Territory. In a last-ditch effort to retain Native sovereignty, Creek Nation chief Pleasant Porter, pictured here, helped organize a 1905 movement ...

But they feared that when Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined to form a new state, Jim Crow laws would again thrust black people under the heel of white supremacy. The men needed ...

Actually, many significant battles took place in what is now Oklahoma. The greatest battle of the war in Indian Territory was the Battle of Honey Springs, which was fought July 17, 1863 ...

Three years ago, Native Americans in Oklahoma rejoiced when the Supreme ... to prosecute those accused of committing crimes on Indian territory. Only the tribal courts, or the federal government ...