Historic sovereign territory set aside for Native American nations, 1834–1907
Not to be confused with Indian reservation or Indian reserve.
This article is about the historical territory in the United States of America. For states and union territories of India, see States and union territories of India. For other uses, see Indian country.
Indian Territory
Unorganized territory of independent Indian nations of the United States
1834–1907
The Oklahoma (west of the red line) and Indian Territories (east of the red line) in 1890
Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state. The concept of an Indian territory was an outcome of the U.S. federal government's 18th- and 19th-century policy of Indian removal. After the American Civil War (1861–1865), the policy of the U.S. government was one of assimilation.
Indian Territory later came to refer to an unorganized territory whose general borders were initially set by the Nonintercourse Act of 1834, and was the successor to the remainder of the Missouri Territory after Missouri received statehood. The borders of Indian Territory were reduced in size as various Organic Acts were passed by Congress to create organized territories of the United States. The 1906 Oklahoma Enabling Act created the single state of Oklahoma by combining Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, annexing and ending the existence of an unorganized independent Indian Territory as such, and formally incorporating the tribes and residents into the United States.
Before Oklahoma statehood, Indian Territory from 1890 onward comprised the territorial holdings of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and other displaced Eastern American tribes. Indian reservations remain within the boundaries of U.S. states, but are largely exempt from state jurisdiction. The term "Indian country" is used to signify lands under the control of Native nations, including Indian reservations, trust lands on Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area, or, more casually, to describe anywhere large numbers of Native Americans live.
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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia...
constitutional formation and development. The status of "union territory" may be assigned to an Indian sub-jurisdiction for reasons such as safeguarding the rights...
and 8 union territories. All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have...
were forced by the United States to move from modern-day Kansas into IndianTerritory (present-day Oklahoma), and the majority of their descendants live...
most of what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma was designated as the IndianTerritory. It served as an unorganized region that had been set aside specifically...
These are lists of Indian states and union territories by their nominal gross state domestic product (GSDP). GSDP is the sum of all value added by industries...
Confederate Units of IndianTerritory consisted of Native Americans from the Five Civilized Tribes — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole...
May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the IndianTerritory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of...
Indian Ocean Territory may refer to one of three administrative units in the Indian Ocean: Australian Indian Ocean Territories (AIOT), two island groups...
used as a prostitute to serve American soldiers at Cantonment in the IndianTerritory. She lived in slavery until about 1880. She died of a hemorrhage resulting...
government of the United States. The various American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations as they are not sovereign entities. In...
part of Indian Removal, despite not having waged war against the United States, the majority of Choctaw were forcibly relocated to IndianTerritory from...
IndianTerritory which became Oklahoma. As settlers expanded onto the Great Plains and the Western United States, the nomadic and semi-nomadic Indian...
resource for Indians in the territory of the present United States." The United States put forward another act when "Congress passed the Indian Removal Act...
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Indian Affairs 1861 reported 22,000. Enumeration published in 1886 counted 23,000 Cherokee in Oklahoma (IndianTerritory) as of year 1884. Indian Affairs...
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Autonomous Region to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the...
This is a list of Indian states and union territories by NSDP per capita. Net state domestic product (NSDP) is the state counterpart to a country's Net...
northern Florida. Most of the Muscogee people were forcibly removed to IndianTerritory (now Oklahoma) by the federal government in the 1830s during the Trail...
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