Rare original 1890 Indian Territory OKLAHOMA newspaper TERRITORIAL TOPIC Boomers

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Rare original 1890 Indian Territory OKLAHOMA newspaper TERRITORIAL TOPIC Boomers:
$350.00

Very rare original 1890 Indian Territory OKLAHOMA newspaper THE TERRITORIAL TOPIC (Purcell, CHICKASAW NATION, Indian Territory) with news of the Oklahoma Boomers land rush

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This exquisitely rare INDIAN TERRITORY newspaper contains National and international news as well as lots of news and ads about the Chickasaw Indian Nation (Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma) from 1890,125 yearsago.

This VERY RARE issue contains a front page report that \"Boomers\" would be expelled from Indian Territory if they tried to come in and settle on land before the official Oklahoma land Rush would begin (in 1892).

The Chickasaw Nation is a federally recognized Native American nation, located in Oklahoma. They are one of the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. The Chickasaw Nation was created after the Chickasaw people were forcibly removed by the US federal government to Indian Territory in the 1830s. Their removal was part of a larger effort by the federal government to relocate Native American peoples from the Eastern side of the Mississippi River; in the Southeast, these were the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. The removals became known as the \"Trail of Tears\".

During Indian removal of the 1830s, the United States government first assigned the Chickasaw to a part of Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River controlled by the Choctaw Nation; their area in the western area of the nation was called the Chickasaw District. It consisted of Panola, Wichita, Caddo, and Perry counties.

Following the Civil War, the United States forced the Chickasaw into new peace treaties because of the support of many of the Five Civilized Tribes for the Confederacy. Under the new treaty, the Chickasaw (and Choctaw) ceded the \"Leased District\" to the United States. In 1868, the Chickasaw Montford T. Johnson, with Jesse Chisholm\'s help, secured an agreement with the Plains tribes to establish a ranch on the new western edge of the Nation. His ranch was never raided, although often threatened. He and his family remained the only permanent residents of the area until the settlement of Oklahoma after it was admitted as a state.

Under the Dawes Act, the Chickasaw nation was dissolved, with government functions transferred to the federal government before statehood, by agreement negotiated with the Dawes Commission. Following the breakup of the nation, the Chickasaw became citizens of the United States. The US allotted the communal land in plots for individual households of registered members. Land left over was declared \"surplus\" and made available for sale to non-Indians, so they lost much of their tribal lands.

Boomers is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879, prior to President Grover Cleveland opening them to settlement by signing the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889. Boomers preceded by a decade the Sooners, settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening.

The term \"Boomer\" relating to Oklahoma refers to participants in the \"Boomer Movement,\" white settlers who believed the Unassigned Lands were public property and open to anyone for settlement, not just Indian tribes. Their belief was based on a clause in the Homestead Act of 1862 which said that any settler could claim 160 acres of \"public land.\" Some Boomers entered the Unassigned Lands and were removed more than once by the United States Army. Charles C. Carpenter was the earliest leader of the Boomer movement, succeeded by David L. Payne, who was succeeded by William L. Couch.

After its founding in 1890, the University of Oklahoma adopted \"Boomers\" as the nickname of their football team, after having first tried \"Rough Riders.\" In 1908, the name was changed to \"Sooners\", the current team name.

Purcell is a city in McClain County, Oklahoma.

Purcell was founded as a railroad town in 1887, with the coming of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Amtrak still serves the town with the Heartland Flyer at the station near the old Santa Fe depot. Purcell was at the north end of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, owned by the ATSF. Located on the Canadian River, it was called the \"Queen City of the Chickasaw Nation.\"

Purcell was the only town on the border of the Unassigned Lands, and began attracting hopeful settlers even before the Land Run of 1889. Town lots went on sale April 5, 1887, and a post office was established 16 days later.

Location of Purcell, Oklahoma

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