The Story of Oklahoma - Civil War in Indian Territory

In 1860, the Indian Territory had a population of 55,000 Indians, 8,400 black slaves owned by Indians, and 3000 whites. In 1861, as the American Civil War began, Texas forces moved north and the United States withdrew its military forces from the territory. Confederate Commissioner Albert Pike signed formal treaties of alliance with all the major tribes, and the territories sent a delegate to the Confederate Congress in Richmond. However, there were minority factions who opposed the Confederacy, with the result that a small-scale Civil War raged inside the territory. A force of Union troops and loyal Indians invaded Indian Territory and won a strategic victory at Honey Springs on July 17, 1863. By late summer 1863, Union forces controlled Fort Smith in neighboring Arkansas, and Confederate hopes for retaining control of the territory collapsed. Many pro-Confederate Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians fled south, becoming refugees among the Chickasaw and Choctaws. However, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee, captured Union supplies and kept the insurgency active. Watie was the last Confederate general to give up; he surrendered on June 23, 1865.
During the Civil War, Congress passed a statute (still in effect) that gave the President the authority to suspend the appropriations of any tribe if the tribe is "in a state of actual hostility to the government of the United States … and, by proclamation, to declare all treaties with such tribe to be abrogated by such tribe.

[@TomahawkCack]

Much love and respect from a Chickasaw/Creek Native living in Indian Territory Oklahoma, USA 🇺🇸 ✌🏾

[@bryndenrowe8991]

Long live oklahoma and the rest of the 50 states!!!

[@aquillafleetwood8180]

My g g grandfather, Sgt. Charles Fleeteood, led an all Cherokee regiment in the Battle of Honey Well Springs! He served at Fort Gibson with Robert E. Lee, Sam Houston, and Jefferson Davis in the 1830s! Charles married a young Indian maiden, just off the Trail of Tears in 1834! Charles fought for the North and was killed in the Civil War! It was believed he was murdered and robbed after supper by some of his Cherokee Troops!

[@zacsundquist6902]

I live in Fort Gibson

[@charlescrowell3346]

"I didn't surrender, but my horse did. They got him pulling a wagon up in Kansas." Lone Waddy

[@Chin_Tup_Hat]

how do teachers find this stuff

[@mainstmechanical7932]

Go to a library

[@eagleman1542]

It's ironic that General Pike was actually a Yankee from Boston.

[@PoppaCold1]

Where is part 2?

By fighting in the civil war against the constitutional republic of these states the native Americans tribes broke the treaty an never surrender, , !! The Iran war standard after the civil war with the confederacy nation, they lost, an new treaty were made an have legal standing, you go the war an lose. You lose land for the body count you made for rape for the Arson an slavery,

[@cartercavicchio5524]

YEE YEE

[@ethanbarnes7428]

no

[@johnqpublic2718]

Yes, yee yee

[@okiemudbug5937]

Yee yee!

[@jrr6404116]

Can anyone speak to the accuracy of the actors in this movie? I feel like they are really inaccurate. Shirts with double breast pockets would not have been common and one guy is wearing a modern cowboy hat. I'm from Wagoner, Oklahoma and have always heard stories of a massacre that was done there by confederate indian cavalry.

[@mrdigit3353]

agreed video b-, audio f.

[@jeanpierrereynoso-fournel005]

[@bwh1673]

Don’t make me scalp y’all.

[@victorochoa3667]

The SOUTH lost lol

[@agustinc.368]

Wow had no idea

[@Cynic58]

@@agustinc.368 Me neither, I gotta start paying more attention to the 1865 Tulsa World News!