Oklahoma!
Today you will be learning about the history of Oklahoma
Oklahoma history!
Most of Oklahoma was indian territory before the Civil War began, and it was opened for the general settlement. Then statehood came to poor ranching and farming, but then oil was discovered. People have lived in Oklahoma ever since the oldest known documented Paleo Indian culture in the field of archaeology. Archaeologists believe that ancestors of the Wichita people occupied the eastern Great Plains from the Red River north to Nebraska for at least 2000 years
More Oklahoma history!
Between A.D 800 and A.D 1450 a lot of the Midwest and southwest region, including a part of Oklahoma. It was home to a group of communities that are known as the Mississippian culture. Their communities often built ceremonial platform and burial mounds, and trade between communities was based on river travel. There were multiple leaders that never controlled large areas or lasted more than a few hundred years.
This is Spiro Mounds on the Arkansas River
Even more Oklahoma history!
In the history of the United States, a challenging issue was the management of frontier settlement in the traditional lands of the Native Americans. One approach to obtain land in or near the established states was to relocate tribes to unsettled territory further west. In 1820 and 1825 the Choctaw Tribe were given lands in the Arkansas Territory (Including the area which is currently Oklahoma) for part of their homeland mainly in the state of Mississippi.
Easy trivia
1. What communities were occupying the midwest and southwest during A.D 800 to A.D 1450
2. how long did the wichta people live in part of great plains?
Difficult trivia
1. Where do the Wichita people live?
C. Destroyed Paleo-Indian Territory
2. Trade between Mississippian communities was based on what?
3. What did Mississippians often build