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The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, Valliant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma: Now Called the Alice Lee Elliott Memorial : Including the Early History of the Five Ci

by Robert Elliott Flickinger

2019-01-24 19:56:48

Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, was a part of the public domain, that was reserved for several tribes of Indians whose native hunting grounds were principally in the Southern states. While they remained in their native valleys they proved a menace to ... Read more
Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, was a part of the public domain, that was reserved for several tribes of Indians whose native hunting grounds were principally in the Southern states. While they remained in their native valleys they proved a menace to the safety of the frontier settlers, and in times of war were sure to take sides against them. Thomas Jefferson in his day advised that they be located together on some general reservation. This was gradually effected during the earlier years of the last century. Less

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File size3288.611 KB
Print pages448
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780788422225,
Robert Elliott Flickinger was born December 3, 1845, in Port Royal, PA, the oldest son of Major Daniel and Julia Ann Saylor Flickinger and a great grandson of John and Elizabeth Hench Rice. He grew up...

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