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 ...

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 ...

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 returned, again and again. Delegates from 34 Indigenous tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, in 1880. (National Archives) Among those intruders was ...

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 ...