By 1890, the U.S. Census showed that only 28% of people in Indian Territory were actually “Indian.” With statehood in 1907, Oklahoma assumed jurisdiction over all its territory, ultimately ...

The government acted in 1890 to create Oklahoma Territory, which reduced the size of Indian allotments. By 1907, when the state of Oklahoma was created, the previous Indian Territory was subsumed ...

On this day in 1907, Oklahoma joined the Union when President Theodore Roosevelt signed a proclamation that made it the 46th state. In 1890, the region was divided into the Indian Territory and ...

The third governor of the Oklahoma Territory, Abraham Jefferson Seay, lived in a three-story mansion west of Kingfisher ...

On this day in 1907, Oklahoma joined the Union when President Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation making it the 46th state. In 1890, the region had been divided into the Indian Territory and the ...

That area was once known as Indian Territory: a land where tribes displaced from other parts of the U.S. had been resettled.

In Indian Territory (much of today’s eastern ... Edward McCabe, a lawyer and politician from New York, ventured to Oklahoma Territory in 1890, where he founded a town exclusively for black ...

Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court shocked many throughout the country by reviving an abortion ban from 1864. Oklahoma has been laboring under an almost-verbatim pre-statehood ban since June 24 ...

Actually, many significant battles took place in what is now Oklahoma. The greatest battle of the war in Indian Territory was the Battle of Honey Springs, which was fought July 17, 1863 ...