35-xx-xx ep29Oklahoma Land Rush

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don'tless courage and high ideals, in their desire to explore and settle the West. In 1866, the five civilized tribes signed treaties with the government. Scarcely had this momentous event been celebrated, then both United States citizens and certain members of Congress began to clamor that some of the lands of the Indian territory be open to white settlement.

In that same year, 1866, there arrived in Washington, representatives of the five civilized tribes, to lay before the great white father, their Bill of Roggs, said their spokesman to President Andrew Johnson. Oh, great white father.

Soon the red men in Oklahoma will be as clouds before the winds of the storm, driven into the cavern of the setting sun. There will be seen no more because of the white man's greed.

The White Brother is a hungry brother, and he would swallow up all the lands of the Earth. The Red Man of the Five Civilized Trads hold their lands in common, so has always been. Now the White Man says, give Chief, Warrior, Squaw, and Pat Pusa Farm.

A farm for the Red Man. He who once owned all the Earth. No such bill has has yet been proposed to the Congress. That time too will come, Great White Father. But our treaty says that the Red Man shall have his land to hold as long as the grass grows and the water flows.

If that is the treaty which we all signed in honor, so which shall be. Except for grants of land to the railroads, which must pass through all the country, the five civilized tribes shall be free to roam from one end of the Indian territory to the other.