"BACK TO THE INDIAN"

Pfui. They lost Oklahoma as a natural consequence of breaking their treaty and aligning their soldiers with the South, joining with the Confederacy and raiding the camps, wagon trains and settlements of settlers who thought they were peaceful. The last Confederate unit to cease fighting the Union, 2 months AFTER General Lee surrendered and ordered the Southern surrender was the Cherokee nation unit in Texas. The only reason that Confederate Unit surrendered was because they were now the focus of attention and Sheridan and Custer had been given command of sufficient troops to deal with them and they was a coming. Bad luck Sheridan was then handed military control of the Western States. Equally bad luck that folks in Washington had long memories and remembered some broken treaties and that there were still slaves on the Reservation (yes, the Cherokee kept slaves, which is why they were pro-South), so since the Treaty creating the Oklahoma Reservation had already been thrown in the trash by the Cherokee, and since there was growing pressure on Congress to honor General Washington's scripts promising 40 acres and a mule, Oklahoma became the Oklahoma Territory and at the blow of a whistle any family still holding an original script document issued by General Washington's Army was privileged to join what history later called the Oklahoma Land Rush and claim their 40 acres now free for the taking thanks to the Cherokee turning their back on their Treaty with the US. Later it became the State of Oklahoma once enough folk moved there.

LoL, like the football team the name of the state is racist and politically incorrect so we should change it. Perhaps La La Land or Freedom Land (oh, no that name was already taken by an old amusement park), or I know, The State of 40 acres and a mule.