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Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands of Oklahoma Genealogy
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An Area in Oklahoma.
 In
Oklahoma the Cheyenne live in Custer
County; Roger
Mills County; Canadian
County; Kingfisher
County, Blaine
County; and Dewey
County more...
In Oklahoma, the Arapaho live
mostly in Blaine
County, and Washita
County. more...
RESOURCES:
Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands of Oklahoma
The Organic Act which provided for
the organization and government of Oklahoma divided the old Indian
Territory in two parts - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory -
Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation being in Oklahoma Territory.
The lands of the Cheyenne
- Arapaho country were to be decided by a
"land run", a race for claims in the reservation. This run was
held April 19, 1892.
Prior to the passage of the Organic
Act of 1890, an Indian Commission of
three men were appointed to to work with the Indians and persuade them
to take their lands by allotment. The surplus would then be opened for
settlement. The Indian Commission worked with the Cheyenne and Arapaho
tribes at Fort Sill for several years, and finally the Jerome Agreement
was signed. The Tribes were allotted their homesteads, and the remainder
of the area would be available for settlement by others.
The Cheyenne-Arapaho received
allotments and the remaining land was opened for settlement. On April
12, 1892, the proclamation
was issued naming noon, April
19, 1892, as the date set for the
opening. An estimated 25,000 people dashed across the line in the race
for homes. The Proclamation added six new counties to Oklahoma
Territory. [photo]
In July 1, 1910 another proclamation
in which all the lands within what was formerly the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indian Reservation, in the State of Oklahoma, and described in
the said act of Congress, which in the judgment of the Secretary of the
Interior are no longer needed or necessary, for the purposes for which
they were originally reserved, shall be opened to entry and disposed of
upon sealed bids or at public auction on and after November fifteenth,
one thousand nine hundred and ten (November 15, 1910), at the City of El
Reno, in the State of Oklahoma.
RESOURCES:
Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands of Oklahoma
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