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 ...

In Indian Territory (much of today’s eastern Oklahoma ... stands with associates outside his law offices in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1910. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African ...

But every few years, they would journey back to whence they came, to Oklahoma, for a family reunion ... They arrived in a place known as Indian Territory, so named because it was meant to function ...

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 ...

A 5-4 decision declaring that much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation could reshape criminal justice in the area by preventing state authorities from prosecuting Native Americans.