Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands: Oklahoma, 1901.  The tops of the freighter cars furnished seats for some 30,000 people who witnessed this drawing The Homestead Act of 1862, which provided the basis for land giveaways such as these, turns 150 years old on May 20.
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Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands: Oklahoma, 1901.  The tops of the freighter cars furnished seats for some 30,000 people who witnessed this drawing

The Homestead Act of 1862, which provided the basis for land giveaways such as these, turns 150 years old on May 20.

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    yea, white people. #homesteadact
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    “Giveaway”! what a neat phrase. a land giveaway meant the genocide, internment, and renaming of peoples on a scale so...
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    Way before the Internet, television, etc., people got together en masse, to witness all variety of spectacle. The more...
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    FWIW, this area comprises present-day Southwest Oklahoma. The largest community in that region is Lawton, which sprang...