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  2. Land Rush of 1889 - Wikipedia

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    Painting depicting the famous land rush in the former western Indian Territory and future Oklahoma Territory, April 22nd, 1889.. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of the former western portion of the federal Indian Territory, which had decades earlier since the 1830s been assigned to the Creek and Seminole native peoples.

  3. Boomer Sooner - Wikipedia

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    On October 15, 1983, the University of Oklahoma football team visited Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Sooner squad played poorly at first, and within 10 minutes Oklahoma State was winning by a score of 20-3. A policeman escorted Gene Thrailkill, the Oklahoma band director, off the field for not having a sideline pass ...

  4. Boomers (Oklahoma settlers) - Wikipedia

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    President Grover Cleveland opened the Indian Territory to settlement by signing the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889. [4] The result was the Land Rush of 1889 . In it, rushers could be divided into two groups: the Sooners were settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening in a race ...

  5. Oklahoma Land Run anniversary: What to know about rocky ... - AOL

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    That event, which started on April 22, 1889, is also a source of generational trauma for many Oklahoma tribal members, who are reminded by the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run of their ancestors' forcible ...

  6. Sooners - Wikipedia

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    Sooners is the name given to settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands illegally in what is now the state of Oklahoma before the official start of the Land Rush of 1889. The Unassigned Lands were a part of Indian Territory that, after a lobbying campaign, were to be opened

  7. Oklahoma Territory - Wikipedia

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    On March 2, 1889, Congress passed an amendment to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871, which provided for the creation of homestead settlements in the unassigned lands, to be known as Oklahoma Territory. President Benjamin Harrison announced that the Oklahoma lands would be opened on April 22 via land run. [6]

  8. List of songs about Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    "Oklahoma, A Toast" – written by Harriet Parker Camden of Kingfisher, OK, in 1905. With additional music by Marie Crosby, adopted as the first official state song of Oklahoma in 1935. Replaced in 1953 as official state song by Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma." [207] "Oklahoma Annie" – Monty Harper and Evalyn Harper, 2007. [208]

  9. From 'Rudolph' to 'Frosty,' these 5 classic Christmas songs ...

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    OKC native Gayla Peevey used her holiday hit "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" to help her hometown zoo buy a real-life hippo 70 years ago.