Oklahoma Territory was an organized territory of the United States from May 2, 1890 until November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma became the 46th state. It consisted of the western area of what is now the State of Oklahoma. The eastern area consisted of the last remnant of Indian Territory. In the history of the United States, an organized territory is a territory for which the United States Congress has enacted an Organic Act. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Oklahoma is a state of the United States, lying mostly in the southern Great Plains, and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla. ... A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia and Palmyra Atoll (an uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory), form the United States of America. ... Indian Territory in 1836 Indian Territory in 1891 Indian Territory, also known as Indian Country, Indian territory or the Indian territories, was the land set aside within the United States for the use of American Indians (Native Americans). The general borders were set by the Indian Intercourse Act of 1834. ...

Lands that came to make up Oklahoma Territory

• Old Oklahoma – April, 22, 1889 – opened by land run.
• No Man's Land – May 2, 1890, assigned to Oklahoma Territory by Organic Act.
• Iowa reserve – September 22, 1891 – opened by land run.
• Sac and Fox reserve – September 22, 1891 – opened by land run.
• Tonkawa reserve – 1891 – allotment.
• Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee reserve – September 22, 1891 – opened by land run.
• Cheyenne Arapaho reserve – April 19, 1892 – opened by land run.
• Cherokee Outlet – September 17, 1893 – opened by land run.
• Kickapoo reserve – May 4, 1896 – opened by land run.
• Greer County – March 16, 1896 – officially assigned to Oklahoma Territory (Supreme Court decision May 23, 1895, separated the county from Texas).
• Commanche, Kiowa, and Apache reserve – June 9 through August 6, 1901 – lottery.
• Wichita and Caddo reserve – June 9 through August 6, 1901 – lottery.
• Ponca and Otoe–Misouria reserve – 1904 – allotment.
• Kaw reserve – 1906 – allotment.
• Osage reserve – 1906 – allotment.
• Big Pasture – December 1906 – sealed bid.

Unassigned Lands - 1885 Unassigned Lands, or Oklahoma, were in the center of the lands ceded to the United States by the Creek (Muskogee), and Seminole Indians following the Civil War and on which no other tribes had been settled. ... No Mans Land - c. ... The Iowa (also spelled Ioway) are a Native American people. ... The Sac and Fox Nation is the modern political entity encompassing the historical Sac and Fox nations of Native Americans. ... The Tonkawa are a people native to eastern Texas. ... Rain dance, Kansas, c. ... The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. ... Cheyenne lodges with buffalo meat drying, 1870 The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. ... Scabby Bull, Arapaho 1806 Arapaho camp, ca. ... Alternate meaning: Cherokee Strip, Kansas United States. ... The Kickapoo are Native American tribes. ... Greer County, Texas - c. ... Alternate meanings: Comanche helicopter and Comanche computer games The Comanche Nation is a Native American group of approximately 10,000 members, about half of whom live in Oklahoma and the remainder concentrated in Texas, California, and New Mexico. ... Original territory of the Kiowa Tribe The Kiowa are a nation of Native Americans who lived mostly in the plains of west Texas, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of the arrival of Europeans. ... The Plains Apache (also Kiowa-Apache) are a Southern Athabaskan group that lived primarily on the plains of North America. ... Wichita camp, 1904 The Wichita are a tribe of Native Americans, indigenous inhabitants of North America, who speak Wichita, a Caddoan language. ... The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Southeastern Native Americans who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, Western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma. ... The Ponca are a Native American tribe originally living around the mouth of the [[Niobrara River],] Nebraska, but was later removed to the Indian Territory. ... The Otoe or Oto are a Native American people. ... The Missouri were an aboriginal tribe that inhabited parts of the midwestern United States before the American settlers arrived. ... The Official Seal of The Kaw Nation of Oklahoma The Kaw are an American Indian people of the central Midwestern United States. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

External links

• History of the State of Oklahoma, 1908