OKLAHOMA HISTORY THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES IN INDIAN TERRITORY

OKLAHOMA HISTORY THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES IN INDIAN TERRITORY

BOARD QUESTIONS 1) LIST THE 5 CIVILIZED TRIBES. 2) WHAT STATES WERE THE 5 CIVILIZED TRIBES MOVED FROM? 3) WHEN WAS THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT INSTATED? 4) WHO WAS PRESIDENT DURING THE INDIAN REMOVAL? 5)WHAT WAS OKLAHOMA CALLED DURING THIS TIME PERIOD?

BOARD QUESTIONS 1) WHICH TRIBE OWNED STEAM BOATS? 2) HOW WERE THE TRIBES TAUGHT TO READ AND WRITE ENGLISH? 3) WHICH TRIBES JOURNEY TO INDIAN TERRITORY IS KNOWN AS THE TRAIL OF TEARS? 4) WHO WAS JOHN ROSS?

CHAPTER 7 NOTES DESTITUTE HUMAN RIGHTS MISSION ANNUITY EMIGRANTS DESPERADOS

MINORITY NOTES

THE CHOCTAW LIVED ALONG THE RED RIVER UP TO McCURTAIN COUNTY. MISSIONS WERE SETUP BY CHURCH GROUPS TO TEACH THE PEOPLE HOW TO READ AND WRITE IN ENGLISH. THEY CONTINUED TO HUNT, FARM, AND BEGAN TO BUILD BUSINESSES.

CHOCTAW THEY RAISED CORN, POTATOES, PEAS, BEANS, PUMPKINS, MELONS, AND COTTON. THEY HAD TWO COTTON GINS STEAMBOATS TO TRANSPORT THE COTTON. SALT MINES

CHOCTAW SPINNING WHEELS TO MAKE THREAD FROM THE COTTON. LOOMS TO MAKE CLOTH OUT OF COTTON. SHEEP, CATTLE, HOGS, AND HORSES WERE RAISED.

CHOCTAW THEY HAD A NEWSPAPER THE CHOCTAW TELEGRAPH. ALSO THE CHOCTAW INGELLIGENCER LIGHT HORSEMAN CARRIED NO EXCESS EQUIPMENT SADDLE, RIFLE, REVOLVER, PARCHED CORN, AND BEEF JERKY

CHOCTAW THE LIGHT HORSEMAN HELPED KEEP PEACE WHEN THE AMERICAN MILITARY LEFT FORT TOWSON. TRIED TO KEEP WHISKEY OUT OF CHOCTAW TERRITORY. THEY COULD MOVE VERY QUICKLY AND WERE VERY GOOD AT WHAT THEY DID.

THE CREEK EACH CREEK TRIBE IN THE CONFEDERACY LIVED IN TOWNS AND HAD THEIR OWN LEADERS. THEY USED LOGS TO BUILD CABINS THEY HAD FARMS AND PLANTATIONS ALONG THE VERDIGRIS AND ARKANSAS RIVERS

THE CREEK EACH TOWN HAD A CHIEF, A SUBCHIEF, AND LAWYERS LIGHT HORSE POLICE IN FORCED THE LAW THEY DESTROYED ALL LIQUOR AND FINED ANYONE FOUND WITH IT

THE CREEK CAPITAL WAS ESTABLISHED IN MODERN DAY MUSKOGEE COUNTY MISSIONARIES SETUP TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR THE TRIBE THEY WROTE A CONSTITUTION IN 1860 AND CALLED FOR CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT

THE CREEK

THE CHICKASAW BETWEEN 1838 AND 1856 THEY WERE A DISTRICT INSIDE CHOCTAW NATION LAND. THEY BUILT LOG CABINS GEORGE COLBERT WAS THEIR FIRST GOVERNOR

THE CHICKASAW THEY RAISED COTTON, WHEAT, OATS, RYE, AND CORN. BECAUSE THEY LIVED ON CHOCTAW LAND THEY WERE MADE TO PAY ANNUITY TO THE CHOCTAW EMIGRANTS ON THEIR WAY TO TEXAS GAVE THEM A GOOD MARKET FOR WHICH TO SALE THEIR GOODS.

THE CHICKASAW DESPERADOS OFTEN RAIDED CHICKASAW LAND. LIGHT HORSE MEN TRIED TO KEEP LIQUOR OFF CHICKASAW LAND. CHIN CHI KEE A LIGHT HORSEMEN KILLED THREE WHISKEY RUNNERS WITH A KNIFE. BEFORE HE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD.

THE CHICKASAW MISSIONARIES SETUP TRAINING SCHOOLS IN 1844 THE FIRST WRITTEN CHICKASAW LAW WAS PRINTED. THE 5,000 CHICKASAWS GROW TIRED OF LIVING IN CHOCTAW TERRITORY AND IN 1855 ESTABLISHED IT S OWN GOVERNMENT.

THE CHICKASAW THE CHICKASAW NATION WAS DIVIDED INTO FOUR COUNTIES THE CHICKASAW AND CHOCTAW HERALD NEWSPAPERS WERE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH SINCE BY 1858 MOST OF ITS READS SPOKE AND READ ENGLISH.

THE CHICKASAW

THE CHEROKEE THE WESTERN CHEROKEE MOVED TO INDIAN TERRITORY IN 1820S WITH CHEIF JOHN JOLLY THE EASTERN CHEROKEE MOVED IN 1839 UNDER PRESIDENT JOHN ROSS ROSS DEVISED A CONSTITUTION AND A THREE-BRANCH GOVERNMENT

THE CHEROKEE MISSIONARIES SETUP TRAINING SCHOOLS THE CHEROKEE TERRITORY CAPITAL WAS ESTABLISHED IN TAHLEQUAH PARKER HALL MISSION HAD PRINTING PRESS, GRIST MILLS, SHOPS, FARMS, BOOKS BINDERS, AND STABLES

THE CHEROKEE THEY TRIED TO LIVE LIKE AMERICANS LIVED. THEY HAD A GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM AND EVEN TWO ADVANCED LEARNING CENTERS THEY LIVED AS FARMERS, RANCHERS,AND MERCHANTS

EARLY CHEROKEE TRIBE

FIRST CHEROKEE COUNCIL HOUSE

CHEROKEE PRESIDENT JOHN ROSS

THE SEMINOLE FOUGHT A LONG HARD BATTLE WITH THE U.S. CALVARY. THEY MARCHED A LONG WAY FROM FLORIDA TO INDIAN TERRITORY. INDIAN TERRITORY WAS VASTLY DIFFERENT THEN THEIR HOME LAND OF FLORIDA.

THE SEMINOLES THEY WERE EXPECTED TO LIVE UNDER THE CREEK GOVERNMENT, BUT REFUSED. THE CREEK IN A TREATY IN 1845 ALLOWED THEM TO SET UP THEIR OWN TOWN REGULATIONS. AS LONG AS THEY WERE APPROVED BY THE CREEK COUNCIL.

THE SEMINOLES THEY LIVED IN OKFUSKEE AND HUGHES COUNTIES BETWEEN THE DEEP FORK AND CANADIAN RIVERS. THE CREEK DIDN T LIKE THE FACT THAT SOME SEMINOLES WERE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DECENT AND PROHIBITED THEM FROM LIVING AMONG THE CREEKS.

THE SEMINOLES A SEMINOLE LEADER -WILDCAT MOVED TO MEXICO AND TRIED TO TAKE AS MANY BLACK SEMINOLES AND CREEK SLAVES AS POSSIBLE. HE CAME BACK A SECOND TIME TO GET MORE BLACK SEMINOLES TO MOVE WERE THEY WOULD BE FREE. THEY WERE CHASED AND SHOT AT BY THE CREEKS AND COMANCHE.

THE SEMINOLES TREATY OF 1856 SEPARATED THE CREEKS AND THE SEMINOLES. GIVING THE SEMINOLES THE CHANCE TO GOVERN THEMSELVES. THE NEW SEMINOLE LANDS WERE IN MODERN DAY TECUMSEH.

THE SEMINOLES THE MISSIONARIES DIDN T ESTABLISH SCHOOLS FOR THE SEMINOLE UNTIL 1849. THE SEMINOLE WERE NOT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE AND BECAUSE OF NO SCHOOLS WERE VERY SLOW TO ADAPT TO THE MOVE TO INDIAN TERRITORY.

THE SEMINOLE

the seminole

the seminole

GOLDEN YEARS THE TIME BETWEEN THE REMOVAL OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES AND THE CIVIL WAR. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, INDIAN TERRITORY WILL CHANGE AGAIN. THIS TIME CAUSING MORE HARDSHIP FOR THE AMERICAN INDIANS.