The five largest tribes in Oklahoma have decided to decline participation in the Governor's task force to address jurisdictional issues. The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes ...

Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace. The Cherokee nation was one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in the southeast, and like all other tribes existing east of the ...

Members of the Five Civilized Tribes were given individual land allotments in Oklahoma in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Under the 1947 Stigler Act, lease approvals went from the Secretary of ...