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The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Indian Territory, Chetopa, Kansas Homestead, historic poster, broadside, side two - 1879
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Stagecoach On Niven's Ferry Photograph of men steering Niven's ferry across the Arkansas River to Muskogee, Indian Territory, with a stagecoach hitched to two mules onboard, Indian Territory, (Oklahoma), 1900.
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thats_our_voice: #onthisday Indian Territory was the area of land that had been reserved specifically for the Indians. Different tribes owned different sections. In the middle of the Indian Territory there was a section that no tribe officially owned. White settlers had been attempting to settle here since the beginning of the 1880’s as it had very fertile farmland. However, they were usually stopped by the US army which shows that the government were capable of protecting Indian land if…
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With the midterm elections over, it's time for Americans to leave behind the recent attempts to demonize an entire people. We needn't look to Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa for examples of the labeling and abusing of others. The suspicions promoted about Hispanics as criminals and Muslims as terrorists were only the latest reminders of discrimination throughout our own history.
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This virtual exhibit highlights both the Western photographers’ role in documenting American Indian life and the photographs themselves. The work of noted Western photographers including George A. Addison, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory; W. E. Irwin, Chickasha, Indian Territory; Thomas Houseworth, San Francisco, California; John K. Hillers, the Powell Expedition of 1873; Timothy O’ Sullivan, the…
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Unidentified Cheyenne man - 1 - Kansas Memory
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These rare and beautiful vintage photos of Native American girls were taken between the late 1800s and the turn of the 19th Century, yet despite being over a hundred years old, many of the old photos are still in mint condition.
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A Mexican boy is believed to have been photographed in the early 1870s by William S. Soule at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. An inscription on the image indicates that he was a captive of the Comanche
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The Cherokee were some of the most prominent Native American tribes in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, controlling about 40,000 square miles of land. There are so many cool facts about the Cherokee, but some of the coolest has to be their matrilineal line, as well as their equality system. This tribe had such an amazing way to organize their “politics,” taking into consideration both men and women’s points of view. Want to learn more about the Cherokee, their…
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In November 1876, about 700 cavalry and 400 Indian scouts led by Col. Ranald Mackenzie, burned the main village of the Northern Cheyenne to the ground near the Red Fork of Powder River about 20 miles west of present Kaycee, Wyo. Seven soldiers were killed and about 40 Cheyenne, but the economic and cultural loss to the tribe was devastating. The Northern Cheyenne surrendered to government authorities the following spring.
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Native American young woman
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