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  2. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The State suffered little during the war, but trade and finance were disrupted. Angry returning veterans seized state property, and Texas went through a period of extensive violence and disorder. Most outrages took place in northern Texas; outlaws based in the Indian Territory plundered and murdered without distinction of party. [140]

  3. Indian Territory - Wikipedia

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    Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850–1890 (Texas Tech University Press; 2013), 186 pages; Studies black women held as slaves by the Cherokee, Choctaw, and other Indians [ISBN missing] Smith, Troy. "The Civil War Comes to Indian Territory", Civil War History (September 2013), 59#3, pp. 279–319 online

  4. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Kansas Territory was organized from unorganized territory north of 37° north, and Nebraska Territory was organized north of 40° north. [213] [214] [215] Much of the remaining unorganized territory, east of 100° west, became known as Indian Territory, designated as a place to resettle Indian tribes.

  5. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    About 17,000 Cherokees, along with approximately 2,000 enslaved blacks held by Cherokees, were taken by force migration to Indian Territory. [102] Tribes were generally located to reservations where they could more easily be separated from traditional life and pushed into European-American society.

  6. List of American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    3,800 Seminoles transported to the Indian Territory; 300 remain in Everglades; Second Creek War (1836) Comanche Wars (1836–75) Part of the Texas–Indian wars Spain Mexico Republic of Texas United States Choctaw Nation: Comanche: Osage Indian War (1837) Osage Nation: Cayuse War (1847–55) United States: Cayuse: Ute Wars (1849–1923) United ...

  7. Texas–Indian wars - Wikipedia

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    The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...

  8. Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century. [1] [2]

  9. American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...