Volume 9 , Issue 19

Sequoyah Statehood Movement

The Sequoyah Movement in Oklahoma, would lead to a convention to draft a second constitution for the proposed state of Sequoyah on August 21, 1905, considered Haskell ready and able. He served as one of five vice-presidents representing the Five Civilized Tribes. While publicly working for a separate state for Indian Territory, Haskell privately believed that defeat of this proposition would ultimately drive Indian leaders to join in statehood with Oklahoma Territory. Although the people of Indian Territory approved the Sequoyah Constitution in a referendum, United States President Theodore Roosevelt declared there could only be one state of Oklahoma. With passage of the Enabling Act in June 1906, a constitution was all that stood between Oklahoma Territory and statehood....." -- Biographical Note Governor Charles Haskell
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