On this day in Oklahoma history in 1905, the first free public library in Indian Territory opened in Chickasha.

If history had taken a different turn, the place now known as Oklahoma could have seen an even stronger win for Native American sovereignty. That area was once known as Indian Territory ...

On Thursday, the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma (UINO) hosted the first quarterly meeting of 2025 to discuss critical ...

In memory of the journey that relocated thousands of Native Americans to Oklahoma between 1830 and 1850, the Choctaw Nation ...

Throughout March, in recognition of Women’s History Month, we have celebrated and honored Cherokee women who have shaped our ...

In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The treaty, signed at New Echota, Georgia, in December 1835, established a deadline ...

and finally Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Some moved to upstate New York, then to Wisconsin. No American Indian state was ever created. The Treaty of Fort Pitt is the ninth treaty to be lent to ...

Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he ...

The U.S. Army forcibly removed more than 15,000 Cherokees and marched them westward to "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma, a journey the Cherokee called the "Trail of Tears." As many as a quarter of ...