Oklahoma History Academic Standards

OKH.3.1 Summarize the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction Treaties on American Indian peoples, territories, and tribal sovereignty including:

A. required enrollment of the Freedmen
B. Second Indian Removal
C. significance of the Massacre at the Washita
D. reasons for the reservation system and the controversy regarding the reservation system as opposed to tribal lands
E. establishment of the western military posts including the role of the Buffalo Soldiers
F. construction of railroads through Indian Territory

Oklahoma History Center Education Resources

Teacher Resources
Tribal Sovereignty Overview

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Donald Fixico, "American Indians"
Dianna Everett, "Indian Territory"
David Baird, "Westward Expansion"
James L. Huston, "Civil War Era"
Martha Hartzog, "Indian Territory Military District"
William D. Pennington, "Reconstruction Treaties"
Martha Hartzog, "Fort Smith Council"
Alan C. Downs, "Camp Napoleon Council"
Martha Hartzog, "Fort Smith Council"

Research Center Resources

Rennard A. Strickland, The Indians in Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981)
Robert E. Smith, Oklahoma's Forgotten Indians (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1981)
Arrell Morgan Gibson, America's Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976)
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Steve Cottrell, Civil War in the Indian Territory (Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co., c1995)
Joseph Connole, The Civil War and the Subversion of American Indian Sovereignty (Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017)

Online Primary Sources

Resources Related to American Indian and Alaska Native Communities at the National Archives, DocsTeach
Composite of four scenes related to Indian relations with the U.S. government, Fort Sill Oklahoma, 1876, Library of Congress

Additional Resources

"Native Voices," US National Library of Medicine
"Immigration…Native Americans," Library of Congress

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A. required enrollment of the Freedmen

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Linda Reese, "Freedmen"
Larry O'Dell, "All-Black Towns"
Carol Sue Humphrey, "Freedmen Schools"

Research Center Resources

Patrick Minges, ed., Black Indian Slave Narratives (Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 2004)

Audio/Visual

Online Primary Sources

"Digitized Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Dawes)," National Archives

Additional Resources

Will Chavez. "Cherokee Nation/ Freedmen Timeline," Cherokee Phoenix, August 10, 2006

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and NEHGS Researcher Meaghan E.H. Siekman. "Why Were My Freedmen Ancestors Split Between Tribes?," The Root. January 6, 2019

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B. Second Indian Removal

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Andrew K. Frank, "Indian Removal"

Research Center Resources

"Removal of Tribes to Oklahoma," OHS Research Center
Douglas, R. Hurt, The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846, 1st ed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c2002)

Audio/Visual

Removal of Kiowa Indian Camp, 1853 https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1593214/

Online Primary Sources

"Archives of the West," The West, PBS

Additional Resources

"Interactive Timeline," The West, PBS
"Trail of Death," Citizen Potawatomi Nation

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C. significance of the Massacre at the Washita

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Stephen Black, "Washita, Battle of the"
Michael A. Hughes, "Military, Nineteenth Century"
Stephen Black, "Custer, George Armstrong"
Bob Rea, "Fort Supply (fort)"

Research Center Resources

Louis Kraft, Custer and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer's Winter Campaign on the Southern Plains (1st ed. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1995)

Stan Hoig, The Battle of the Washita: The Sheridan-Custer Indian campaign of 1867-69 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979)

Jerome A. Greene, Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869 (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, c2004)

Audio/Visual

Online Primary Sources

George A. Custer, My Life on the Plains (New York: Sheldon & Co., 1874)
Richard G. Hardorff, Washita Memories: Eyewitness Views of Custer's Attack on Black Kettle's Village (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press)

Additional Resources

"Historical Chronology," Washita Battlefield, National Park Service

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D. reasons for the reservation system and the controversy regarding the reservation system as opposed to tribal lands.

Online Primary Sources

Red Cloud Agency, The Huntington
"Pictures of American Indians," National Archives
Lauren Van Zandt, "Digitized Native American Reservation Records: Photos," September 27, 2017
Lauren Van Zandt, "Digitized Native American Reservation Records: Text," September 27, 2017
Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., Cartographer. Map of Pawnee Reservation showing Allotments. (Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Pub Co, 1893)
Geological Survey, U.S. Map of Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche & Apache Reservations, Oklahoma (Tulsa, Okla.: The Survey, 1959)
John Sebastian, A sectional map of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation: To Be Opened For Settlement ... Summer of. (Chicago, Illinois: John Sebastian, 1901)

Additional Resources

"Aug. 29, 1758 CE: First Indian Reservation," National Geographic

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E. establishment of the western military posts including the role of the Buffalo Soldiers

"Feeding An Army: Historic Fort Gibson," Crossroads

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Michael A. Hughes, "Military, Nineteenth Century"
Bob Rea, "Fort Supply (fort)"
Stan Hoig, "Fort Reno"
Clifford P. Coppersmith, "Apache, Fort Sill"
Jon D. May, "Fort Washita"
Jon D. May, "Fort Wayne"
Brad Agnew, "Fort Gibson (fort)"
Keith Tolman, "Fort Towson (fort)"
David Norris, "Fort Arbuckle"

Research Center Resources

Odie B. Faulk, Kenny Arthur Franks, Paul F. Lambert, Early Military Forts and Posts in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 1978)

Audio/Visual

Online Primary Sources

"American West Photographs: Soldiering in the West," National Archives

Additional Resources

John P. Deeben, "Coastal Bastions and Frontier Forts: Records of US Military Posts, 1821-1920." Genealogy Notes. Fall 2009, Vol. 41, No 3
Trevor K. Plante, "Researching African Americans in the US Army, 1866-1890: Buffalo Soldiers and Black Infantrymen." Genealogy Notes. Spring 2001, Vol. 33, No. 1.
"African Americans in the US Army," US Army Center of Military History
Clayton R. Newell, The Regular Army Before the Civil War, 1845-1860 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History: United States Army, 2014)
Eric Standridge, "Fort Coffee: How an Old Fort Helped Shape Southeastern Oklahoma," Owlcation

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F. construction of railroads through Indian Territory

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., "Railroads"
Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., "Oklahoma Central Railway"
Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., "Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway"
Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., "Fort Smith and Western Railway"
Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway"

Research Center Resources

Donovan L. Hofsommer, Railroads in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 1977)

Online Primary Sources

"Railroad Maps and Plans," Linda Hall Library
"Railroad Journals from the 19th Century," Linda Hall Library
"Railroad Maps, 1828–1900," Library of Congress

Additional Resources

Railroads of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Department of Transportation, 1978)
Eric Standridge, "Early Railroads of Southeast Oklahoma," Owlcation
Sam Vong, "The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on Native Americans," National Museum of American History

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