Oklahoma and Indian Territories
Indian Territory (lands where the Five Civilized Tribes and other Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River were relocated) and Oklahoma Territory (primairly lands set aside to relocate Plains Indians and tribes from the mid-west, as well as lands that were unassigned to any other state or territory) were formally constituted by Congress on May 2, 1890 in the Oklahoma Organic Act. An Organic Act is the name of statute used by the United States Congress to create Organized incorporated territories of the United States, in anticipation of being admitted to the Union as state. The following 16 years saw Congress passing several laws whose purpose was to join Oklahoma and Indian territories into a single State of Oklahoma.
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—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
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