University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons

Title

Indian Territory 1883

Creator

Preview

Johnson's Bibliographic Reference

1885-5

Source Document Title

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 3, 1884, report relative to the leasing of Indian lands in the Indian Territory

Creation Date

1885

Description

Department of the Interior, General Land Office, N.C. McFarland, Commissioner

This shows the reservations of Indians in Oklahoma in 1883. It includes Indian Nations that continue to live here, but also the Nez Perce, who were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in 1878 as prisoners of war. The map shows a reservation that no longer exists. They left Oklahoma in 1885; the existing Nez Perce reservation is in Idaho.