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Following Oklahoma statehood, Haskell and Murray had segregation enshrined into law. The five tribes, diminished in power, faced further marginalization and discrimination, both racially and politically during the first half of the twentieth century. Termination efforts continued against them until
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are granted autonomy and special protections, similar to the historical Sequoyah proposal. After the state is annexed by the United States following the First Great War, the failure of a sovereignty plebiscite fails to return the state to the Confederacy serves as a casus belli for the Second Great
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cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election. However, on Election Day, voters in the territory approved the constitution and statehood petition by 56,279 in favor to 9,073 against. Following this success, Porter, Posey, Haskell, Murray, and the four congressmen brought the proposed constitution to
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be admitted as one state. There is no obligation upon us to treat territorial subdivisions, which are matters of convenience only, as binding us on the question of admission to Statehood... There is no justification for further delay; and the advisability of making the four Territories into two
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to set a date (March 4, 1906) for the breakup of tribal governments and communal lands in the territory. Until 1903, the Five Civilized Tribes and other tribes in Indian Territory had generally opposed all local and national efforts for statehood, whether they were single or joint with Oklahoma
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Although the State of Sequoyah never came into existence, its constitution made an important contribution to Oklahoma history as it formed the majority of the later Oklahoma Constitution. The delegates who wrote it, including Haskell and Murray, shared an underlying
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Single-state supporters and Indian nation leaders pressed the campaign in the weeks leading to the November 7, 1905, election, with the legislatures of each of the Five Tribes endorsing the measure. A month before the scheduled vote,
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distrust of elected officials. The convention also catapulted Haskell, Murray, and others further into the public arena, securing for Indian Territory a solid seat at the debate at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.
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as a single state, apart from Oklahoma Territory, culminated in July 1905 with the Cherokee Chief W.C. Rogers and Choctaw Chief Green McCurtain calling for a constitutional convention that August. The convention met in
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The convention, which met as a whole on August 21 and 22 and September 5 to 8, during which over 150 delegates drafted a constitution, drew up a plan of organization for the government, put together a map showing the
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repealed the Termination Act of 1959. Following this, the tribes began to elect their own chiefs and governments independent of federal oversight, and built separate agreements with the state government in
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that the reservations of the Five Tribes, comprising much of Eastern Oklahoma, were never disestablished by Congress and thus are still "Indian Country" for the purposes of criminal law. In late 2024,
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to petition for statehood, along with 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans who were to serve as congressmen. As the convention closed, Chief Porter made a final impassioned appeal for Sequoyah Statehood:
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served as Secretary. The elected delegates decided that the executive officers of the Five Civilized Tribes would also be appointed as vice-presidents of the convention. These were:
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introduced statehood bills to the House and Senate, respectively. Murray, however, known for his eccentricities and political astuteness, predicted their efforts would fail:
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Roosevelt proposed a "compromise" that would join Indian Territory with Oklahoma Territory to form a single state and resulted in passage of the
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are listed above. This does not imply that all nationalists with a given ethnicity subscribe to that form of
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theorized that the Five Tribes could revive the Sequoyah Movement for separate statehood following the
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on November 16, 1907, with Haskell as its first Governor and Murray as its first House Speaker.
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President Theodore Roosevelt, a proponent of joint-statehood, speaks at Muskogee in April 1905
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The desire of tribal leaders to retain their historic authority and for the territory to be
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population. The territory had been reduced by required land cessions after the Civil War,
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to the west and the Indian Territory to the east. The Indian Territory had a large
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The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State
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Despite having been previously exempt from the 1887 General Allotment Act, the
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Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
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Territory. That changed as the termination deadline approached.
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Large map showing the Oklahoma and Indian Territories in 1895
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Congress, however, did not support statehood for Sequoyah.
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in 1862, later becoming the State of Sequoyah, where the
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to be established, and elected delegates to go to the
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Proposed states and territories of the United States
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Proposed U.S. state in what is now eastern Oklahoma
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