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Indian Territory

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region and former territory of the south-central United States, mainly in present-day Oklahoma. It was set aside by the government as a homeland for forcibly displaced Native Americans in 1834. The western section was opened to general settlement in 1889 and became part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890. The two territories were merged in 1907 to form the state of Oklahoma.

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Examples

  • So when we jumped off for California, we were heading into country three-quarters of which had been Mexican until a few months before, and still was in everything but name. 10 Some of it was called Indian Territory, and that was no lie, either.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • These two exhibits -- one setting forth the artistic, the other the commercial development of the residents of the Indian Territory -- went far toward dispelling the somewhat prevalent idea that the Indian Territory is a wilderness, where progress and civilization are unknown.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • Originally, Tulsa was settled in 1836 by the Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw Native Americans who survived the Trail of Tears and reached this place on the Arkansas River in what was then called Indian Territory and set up a camp they called Tallahassie, yep, same as the town in Florida, these tribes's native lands being in northern Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Alabama.

    Educating BartCop The Daily Growler 2006

  • For several years the Americans had used Indian envoys brought back from Indian Territory to induce the remaining Seminoles to emigrate.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • For several years the Americans had used Indian envoys brought back from Indian Territory to induce the remaining Seminoles to emigrate.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • She means to hire someone with grit to go into the Indian Territory and, by whatever means necessary, bring that trash back to be hung by the proper authorities.

    Michael Jones: Truer Grit Michael Jones 2010

  • She means to hire someone with grit to go into the Indian Territory and, by whatever means necessary, bring that trash back to be hung by the proper authorities.

    Michael Jones: Truer Grit Michael Jones 2010

  • Rogers was born in Indian Territory (the future Oklahoma) in 1879 and was proud of his one-quarter Cherokee Indian heritage.

    Another Alaskan plane crash victim: Entertainer Will Rogers 2010

  • Most of the dispossessed Indians took their ragged, starving families and headed north to the designated Indian Territory, where some twenty thousand officially relocated Indians12 now jostled with one another and with the native plains tribes—the last stop on what came to be known as the “trail of tears.”

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • This situation exists in many parts of Indian Territory.

    Communalism Is Superior to Nationalism 2008

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