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America Transformed: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 allocated the eastern portion of today's Oklahoma for the Chahta (Choctaw), Chikasha (Chickasaw), Mvskoke (Creek), Semvnole (Seminole), and Tsalagi (Cherokee) and other eastern tribal nations. Following the Civil War, the U.S. government assigned much of western Oklahoma to tribes living on the Great Plains and further west. When President Benjamin Harrison took office in 1889, he signed a proclamation opening 1.9 million acres of "Indian territory" to non-Natives for homesteading. This map depicts the territory made available for settlement on April 22, 1889. That day, over 50,000 people raced to claim the best lands, including lots in the emerging towns of Guthrie and Oklahoma City.
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Document identity
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7h14b436v
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Outline map of the lands known as Oklahoma, Indian Ter. opened to settlement by Executive Order March 23, 1889
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
id
7h14b436v
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Outline map of the lands known as Oklahoma, Indian Ter. opened to settlement by Executive Order March 23, 1889
description
America Transformed: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 allocated the eastern portion of today's Oklahoma for the Chahta (Choctaw), Chikasha (Chickasaw), Mvskoke (Creek), Semvnole (Seminole), and Tsalagi (Cherokee) and other eastern tribal nations. Following the Civil War, the U.S. government assigned much of western Oklahoma to tribes living on the Great Plains and further west. When President Benjamin Harrison took office in 1889, he signed a proclamation opening 1.9 million acres of "Indian territory" to non-Natives for homesteading. This map depicts the territory made available for settlement on April 22, 1889. That day, over 50,000 people raced to claim the best lands, including lots in the emerging towns of Guthrie and Oklahoma City.
date
["1889"]
year
1889
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_008862
creators
United States. General Land Office
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Oklahoma--Maps
Indian Territory--Maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
Oklahoma
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Oklahoma
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Washington?
publisher
[General Land Office]
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
35
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 map : col. ; 61 x 54 cm.
notes
Prime meridian: Washington.
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no
dcId
7h14b436v
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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18ee4b04544e9e12