. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . m by force. A war fol-lowed lasting almost seven years which cost theUnited States nearly fifteen hundred lives andabout $10,000,000. Osceola, their leader, was oneof the most powerful of Indian chiefs. Finallyhe was captured by treachery and kept in prisonuntil he died. His followers were overcome andremoved to the Indian Ter-ritoiy (1842), where theywere settled on the lands oftheir kinsmen, the Creeks. Being fewer in number than the Creeks, they had but little power in the tribal govern- - ment. They were dissatisfied Wf~m ^w , # also b
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . m by force. A war fol-lowed lasting almost seven years which cost theUnited States nearly fifteen hundred lives andabout $10,000,000. Osceola, their leader, was oneof the most powerful of Indian chiefs. Finallyhe was captured by treachery and kept in prisonuntil he died. His followers were overcome andremoved to the Indian Ter-ritoiy (1842), where theywere settled on the lands oftheir kinsmen, the Creeks. Being fewer in number than the Creeks, they had but little power in the tribal govern- - ment. They were dissatisfied Wf~m ^w , # also because they felt that they would soon lose their Osceola. (After Catlin) identity aS a UatioU. lu 1856 the Government succeeded in having a part ofthe Creek lands set apart for the Seminoles astheir own. Their lands were bounded on thenorth by the North Canadian River and theCherokee Outlet, on the south by the SouthCanadian River, and they extended from a pointnear the 97th meridian to the Texas line. In brief the Five Civilized Tribes formerly held. REMOVAL OF THE 8EMINOLE8 39 most of the region east of the Mississippi River,and south of the Ohio River to the ; the early part of the nine- .^ ^. ^ , Summary teenth century the southern states,Georgia taking the lead, took steps to force thesetribes to remove to the west. The states olDJectedto having independent Indian states within theirborders. The whites also thought the Indians hadmore good land than they needed or could use. The Cherokees were moved from Georgia,Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina to thenortheastern part of the Indian Territory (1S8(S) ;the Western Cherokees from Arkansas to the In-dian Territory (1828). The Creeks were movedfrom Georgia to Alabama (1825); a few of themwent to the central part of the Indian Territoryat that time. The main body of the Creeks wasmoved from Alabama to the west in 1832. TheChoctaws moved from Mississippi to the south-ern part of the Indian Territory (1830). TheC
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