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Trail Of Tears
Part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The tribes that were affected were: Choctow, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and more.
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Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe was born circa May 28, 1887, near current-day Prague, Oklahoma. An All-American in football at the Carlisle Indian School, he won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics before his gold medals were revoked on a technicality. -
The Land Rush
he Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the present-day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the US state of Oklahoma. -
Oklahoma Becomes A State
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
1931-1939 -
Jim Thorpe Releases Wildcat Trooper
Wildcat Troopers was released July 1, 1936 -
Jim Thorpe Dies
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Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. Timothy McVeigh was held responsible and was prosecuted for his crimes shortly after.
