Author: Grant Foreman
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Category : Five Civilized Tribes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Author: Kent Carter
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Given by Eugene Edge III.

Author: Grant Foreman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806172665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were striving in the years before the Civil War to found schools, churches, and towns, as well as to preserve orderly development through government and laws. In this book Grant Foreman brings to light the singular effect the westward movement of Indians had in the cultivation and settlement of the Trans-Mississippi region. It shows the Indian genius at its best and conveys the importance of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles to the nascent culture of the plains. Their achievements between 1830 and 1860 were of vast importance in the making of America.

Author: Rachal Mills Lennon
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806320540
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Category : Indian land transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Of The Interior U. S. Department
Publisher: Editora Gente Liv e Edit Ltd
ISBN: 9780806317403
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Note: Freedmen are Afro-Americans.

Author: United States. Census Office
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Robert Spencer Cotterill
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Category : Five Civilized Tribes
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Author: United States. Census Office 11th Census, 1890
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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