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A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
The Osage Nation (/ หoสseษชdส / OH-sayj) (Osage: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฐอ, romanized: Ni Okaškฤ , lit. 'People of the Middle Waters') is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe began in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 B.C. along with other groups of its language family, then migrated west ...
Oklahoma. The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, [ 1 ] until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma. The 1890 Oklahoma Organic Act organized the western half of ...
The Adirondack Mountains (/ หædษชหrษndæk / AD-i-RON-dak) [ 1 ] are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles (260 km) wide and covering about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2). [ 2 ] The region contains more than 100 peaks, including Mount Marcy, which is the highest point in New York ...
Areas 529, 620 and the part of 621 south of the Missouri (map 1) These three ranges together show the mutual Indian territory of the Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan as defined in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [2]: 594–596 It extended into Montana and Wyoming. Area 529 turned into U.S. territory on April 12, 1870, by executive order.
Aftermath. 42 years after the end of the Civil War, Indian Territory entered the Union as the State of Oklahoma. However, American Indians would not become full U.S. citizens until 17 years later. Allen Wright (Choctaw) sought reconciliation and led his tribe's delegation to sign the Treaty of 1866.
At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples resided in present-day Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware, and down the Atlantic Coast to the Upper South, and around the Great Lakes in present-day Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It consists of, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County.