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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Chapter 30: Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is the name proposed by Creek and Cherokee radicals for the Indian countries, when the tribes shall have become a people, and the hunting grounds a State.
Enthusiasts, like Adair and Boudinot, dream of such a time.
These Indians cannot heal their tribal wounds, nor get their sixteen thousand Cherokees to live in peace; yet they indulge the hope of reconciling Creek and Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw, under a common rule and a single flag.
Still more, their hearts go out into a day when tribes still wild and pagan-Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, and other Bad Faces — will have ceased to lift cattle and steal squaws, will have buried the hatchet and scalping-knife, and will have learned to read penny fiction and to drink whisky like White men.
That day is yet a long way off.
A new policy has just been adopted by President Grant towards the Red men, with a view to their more speedy settlement and conversion.
This policy is founded on Francisc