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  2. 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.

  3. Oklahoma. Indian Territory, originally “all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory of Arkansas.”. Never an organized territory, it was soon restricted to the present state of Oklahoma, excepting the panhandle and Greer county.

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  4. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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.

  5. Jan 2, 2024 · Geography & Map. Native American Spaces: Cartographic Resources at the Library of Congress. Indian Territory. In the early nineteenth century a movement began in the United States to remove Indian tribes from their ancestral lands in the rapidly developing eastern states and settle them in the newly acquired lands west of the Mississippi River.

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