Senator POMEROY, of Kansas, submitted a proposition to remove all of the semi-civilized tribes in Kansas, and elsewhere in the West, to the Indian Territory, and then, abolishing the system of ...

Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he ...

We propose to state the present position of the Indian nations who occupy the important territory lying between Kansas and Texas, Arkansas and New-Mexico. The region near Chattanooga, over which ...

That area was once known as Indian Territory: a land where tribes displaced from other parts of the U.S. had been resettled. In 1890, a part of it was carved out to form the Oklahoma Territory ...