Volume 13 , Issue 25

Establishment of the Indian Territory Authorized

By an Act of Congress approved 26 May 1830, provisions for the establishment of the Indian Territory were authorized. The terms of that law the President of the U.S. authorized to select a part of the undivided public domain to which the title of the aboriginal tribes had been extinguished.

The same to be divided into a suitable number of districts or reservations for the reception of such tribes of Indians as might choose to exchange the lands where they then resided in states east of the Mississippi. There doesn't seem to have been any formal action on the part of the President in definitely fixing the bounds and limits of the proposed Indian Territory, but the country immediately west of the organized states and territories came to be now as the Indian Territory.

It was within 15 years after the passage and approval of the act providing for the establishment of the Indian Territory, many tribes found their way from the stets east of the Mississippi. The Delaware, Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Pottawatomie, Sac and Fox, and several smaller tribes, moved to reservations in that part of the so called Indian Territory from which the state of Kansas was afterward formed.

The eastern parts of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, with an indeterminate western boundary, were known as the Indian Territory until after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Congress in 1854.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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