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Battle of Little Robe Creek [9] May 12, 1858 modern Ellis County Plains Indian Wars: Antelope Hills Expedition: 78 Comanche vs Texas Rangers [10] Battle of the Wichita Village: October 1, 1858 near modern Rush Springs: Plains Indian Wars Wichita Expedition 75 Comanche vs 2nd U.S. Cavalry [11] [12] Battle of Round Mountain [13] November 19, 1861
During the American Civil War, most of what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma was designated as the Indian Territory.It served as an unorganized region that had been set aside specifically for Native American tribes and was occupied mostly by tribes which had been removed from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The ambush of the steamboat J.R. Williams was a military engagement during the American Civil War.It took place on June 15, 1864, on the Arkansas River in the Choctaw Nation (Indian Territory) which became encompassed by the State of Oklahoma.
Southern Cheyenne Chiefs Lawrence Hart, Darryl Flyingman and Harvey Pratt in Oklahoma City, 2008. Due to their mobility, endurance, horsemanship, and knowledge of the vast plains that were their domain, the Plains Native Americans were often victors in their battles against the U.S. army in the era of American Westward expansion from 1803 to ...
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A map of the process of Indian Removal, 1830–1838. Oklahoma is depicted in light yellow-green. In 1830, a group of Indian nations collectively referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes" (the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole nations), were living autonomously in what would later be termed the American Deep South.
The Battle of Turkey Springs (13–14 September 1878) was the last battle between Native Americans (Indians) and the United States Army in the state of Oklahoma.In the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, 353 Cheyenne Indians, fleeing their reservation in Oklahoma in an attempt to return to their homeland in the northern Great Plains, fought a unit of the United States Army, killing three soldiers.
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