I think at some point people in Oklahoma are going to start getting offended that people always call their home shitty land. If I remember correctly it was what, France, Spain, France, By claim/wars. Sold to the U.S. in 1803 (Louisiana purchase), U.S. forced something like 100k Natives to move there to get them off other lands in 1830ish, then it opened for settlement by 1850ish. So they split it up into Native lands and property purchased/given to settlers. And became a state in the early 1900s.
But there’s a lot of natives still there now. I’m sure most are their descendants. A lot of Cherokees are there, I know some Seminoles were forced up that way. It was as late as President Bush that federal government paid them something like $50m in reperations.
The U.S. is young when you consider everyone knows somebody that was alive when we only had 48 states. When Japan attacked pearl harbor and the U.S. entered world war 2 it wasn’t a State. It was a territory like Puerto Rico, Guam, American Somoa are now. If someone attacked one of those territories today most of the population would say we should give it up because MAGA would try to deport any of the people who live there if they came to the Continental U.S.
“Shitty land” in that the reason it was “Indian Territory” was that no one else wanted it. Wasn’t that good for farming, no natural lakes (all lakes in OK are manmade.)
It was territory that Native Americans used as hunting grounds - a place you pass through for a season chasing the Buffalo. It feels almost spiritually wrong to live here - a blood sick land.
Pulls out a gun in the middle of the Uno Card game and shoots the guy who gave them the Wild Card
I think at some point people in Oklahoma are going to start getting offended that people always call their home shitty land. If I remember correctly it was what, France, Spain, France, By claim/wars. Sold to the U.S. in 1803 (Louisiana purchase), U.S. forced something like 100k Natives to move there to get them off other lands in 1830ish, then it opened for settlement by 1850ish. So they split it up into Native lands and property purchased/given to settlers. And became a state in the early 1900s.
But there’s a lot of natives still there now. I’m sure most are their descendants. A lot of Cherokees are there, I know some Seminoles were forced up that way. It was as late as President Bush that federal government paid them something like $50m in reperations.
The U.S. is young when you consider everyone knows somebody that was alive when we only had 48 states. When Japan attacked pearl harbor and the U.S. entered world war 2 it wasn’t a State. It was a territory like Puerto Rico, Guam, American Somoa are now. If someone attacked one of those territories today most of the population would say we should give it up because MAGA would try to deport any of the people who live there if they came to the Continental U.S.
“Shitty land” in that the reason it was “Indian Territory” was that no one else wanted it. Wasn’t that good for farming, no natural lakes (all lakes in OK are manmade.)
It was territory that Native Americans used as hunting grounds - a place you pass through for a season chasing the Buffalo. It feels almost spiritually wrong to live here - a blood sick land.