From the establishment of a government for Oklahoma Territory in what is now western Oklahoma, and from the beginning of the reservations held by various Indian tribes in what is now eastern Oklahoma, ...

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The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the war, ...

WASHINGTON — The Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma, was one of the most inhumane policy implementations in American history — but it was not an isolated incident.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed for the second time Friday to decide whether much of Oklahoma remains Native American territory, a ruling that could plunge the state into what it has called ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to claw back part of its 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of Oklahoma as Indian country, a legal distinction that prompted outcry from ...

How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence Victor Luckerson In October 1907, eleven black leaders from the “Twin Territories,” out on the frontier, traveled ...

Three years ago, Native Americans in Oklahoma rejoiced when the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma is on tribal land, and that the state could not bring criminal prosecutions for ...

The Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of its term on its last day Thursday. No, it wasn’t either of the decisions about President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Instead, it ...