From Indian Territory to White Man's Country: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Land Ownership in Eastern Oklahoma, 1889-1940University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2002 - 351 pages |
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... nation . Following the forced move to what is now Oklahoma in the 1830s and 1840s , Creeks and Seminoles ... Creek Nation , a mixed - race planter elite transformed what slavery had meant . The planters used enslaved laborers to create ...
... nation . Following the forced move to what is now Oklahoma in the 1830s and 1840s , Creeks and Seminoles ... Creek Nation , a mixed - race planter elite transformed what slavery had meant . The planters used enslaved laborers to create ...
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... Creek and Seminole society , labor might transform land , but it did not create the right to own it . Yet political ... nation presumed the existence of a nation as a formal , governmental entity . That kind of nation was the creation of ...
... Creek and Seminole society , labor might transform land , but it did not create the right to own it . Yet political ... nation presumed the existence of a nation as a formal , governmental entity . That kind of nation was the creation of ...
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... nation merged in the minds of Eufala Harjo and other proponents of the Four Mothers Nation . Prior to allotment , when the lands of the Creek nation were held in common by all citizens , Creeks such as Isparhecher had argued that Creek ...
... nation merged in the minds of Eufala Harjo and other proponents of the Four Mothers Nation . Prior to allotment , when the lands of the Creek nation were held in common by all citizens , Creeks such as Isparhecher had argued that Creek ...
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