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Oklahoma faced severe economic and environmental hardships during the Great Depression, leading to widespread poverty and
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Land Run of 1889 | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
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Oklahoma Land Openings Map Used with permission from the Oklahoma Historical Society By Alanna Radle Rodriguez and Judge Rodriguez Thank you for joining us this month as we look into the history of the Oklahoma Land Runs. Last month, we covered the history leading up to the allowance of white settlement in the Indian Territory by the US government, and of the first or the “Great Land Run”. This month, we are diving into several other of the Land Runs, as there were more than most people…
***Pick up your FREE Activity Pack*** In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, allowing settlers to claim land, providing they lived on the land and improved it. In 1889, the Indian Appropriations Act was signed by Benjamin Harrison, opening up two million acres of land for settlement. The land opened was in Oklahoma, where Native American tribes were just resettling about being removed from their lands through relocations such as the Trail of Tears. In only a few years, seven land…
Pioneer life in Oklahoma wasn't easy, but for those brave souls who ventured out into the wild lands of untamed Oklahoma it was their dream. They saw this new state as a ray of light, a chance to own a piece of the American Dream; a home and land of...
