Life in Indian Territory

Economic Recovery of Five Civilized Tribes

  Once the 5 civilized tribes arrive in Oklahoma,   homes must be built, crops planted, and  towns established.

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   Tribes kept their ancient system of
            holding their lands in common.  

   1.  No private land was owned. 

   2.  All members of a tribe had equal rights .  

   3.  Tribal citizens could hunt, fish, and cut timber
         in all places not occupied by towns and farms.

   4.  Tribes followed an open-range practice.

   5.  Before the Civil War only 100,000 people in Ok

        2 persons per square mile/  they paid in taxes.

   6.  Citizens could sell improvements or pass them
                on to his children.

   Soon military roads connecting the forts together.

   1.  Santa Fe Road/ California Road

2.  Butterfield Overland Mail and Stage route

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Indian Languages & Federal Government

   Two languages  English and tribal were taught in schools.
 
 
 

George Guess  AKA Sequoyah creator  of the Cherokee syllabary which contains   an alphabet of eighty-six characters.

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Soon books and newspapers were published
           in the Cherokee language. Cherokee Phoenix
 
 

Cyrus Byington and Cyrus Kingsbury changed
        the Choctaw spoken language to written form.
 

Population of Indian Territory:

   1.  Before Civil War less than 100,000  tribal citizens,

   2.   a few hundred whites and soldiers and

   3.  over 5,000 black slaves.
 
 

Slave codes: laws regarding slaves

   1.  No hiding runaway slaves

   2.  Punishment for killing slaves

   3. Intermarriage between slaves and Indians were
                 forbidden punishable by public whipping

   4.  Freed slaves could not become citizens.
 
 

Federal Government and Indian Territory
 
 

   Federal Government made payments to tribes

   1.  Appointed an Indian agent who took care
                    of the paperwork

   2.  Work with the 5 civilized tribes to relocate
            more northern and eastern tribes.

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.