1889
DispossessionBook sources
Opening of the Unassigned Lands and Oklahoma land run
Indian Territory; Indigenous nations
Federal opening of land to settlers accelerated the transformation of Indian Territory into a settler jurisdiction. Public celebration of settlement obscured the earlier dispossession that made the land available.
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Context / qualification
The Unassigned Lands had their own cession history; they were not simply all leftover Dawes allotments.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8