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 ...

The reason is that 96 percent of the Creek’s original territory ... Indian Law and Policy at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. A short drive from the old council house, a complex of modern ...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision last week that altered the map of Oklahoma ... in the modern era.” Powerful Native movements in the U.S. — from the American Indian Movement in ...

WASHINGTON — The Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma ... land designated by the U.S. government as Indian Territory. Removal of the Choctaw Nation commenced ...

Three years ago, Native Americans in Oklahoma rejoiced when the Supreme ... to prosecute those accused of committing crimes on Indian territory. Only the tribal courts, or the federal government ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear Oklahoma’s plea to reinstate ... Nation and the crime occurred in Indian territory. The federal appeals court in Denver determined that the victim ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed for the second time Friday to decide whether much of Oklahoma remains Native American territory ... 1866 boundaries of the Indian reservation.

On this day in 1907, Oklahoma joined the Union when President Theodore Roosevelt signed a proclamation that made it the 46th state. In 1890, the region was divided into the Indian Territory and ...