Oklahoma land runs

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historical event land rush settlement event

The Oklahoma land runs were a series of late 19th-century events in which settlers raced to claim parcels of formerly Native American lands in what became the state of Oklahoma.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Land Run of 1889	3
Oklahoma Land Run of 1889	3
Oklahoma land runs canonical	3
Cherokee Outlet land run	1
Cherokee Strip Land Run	1
Cheyenne-Arapaho land run	1
Iowa-Sac and Fox-Pottawatomie-Shawnee land run	1
Kickapoo land run	1
Land Run of 1893	1
Land Run of 1895	1
Oklahoma Land Run of 1891	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical event ⓘ land rush ⓘ settlement event ⓘ
affectedGroup	Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma ⓘ surface form: Absentee Shawnee Tribe Arapaho people ⓘ Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma ⓘ surface form: Cherokee Nation Cheyenne people ⓘ Citizen Potawatomi Nation ⓘ Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma ⓘ Kickapoo people ⓘ Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma ⓘ surface form: Sac and Fox Nation
appliesToJurisdiction	Cherokee Outlet ⓘ Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation ⓘ Kickapoo Reservation ⓘ Unassigned Lands ⓘ
cause	federal policy of allotment of tribal lands ⓘ pressure for white settlement of Indian Territory ⓘ
chronology	occurred before Oklahoma statehood in 1907 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
describedBySource	United States public land law ⓘ surface form: United States federal land records contemporary newspaper accounts ⓘ
effect	creation of numerous new towns in Oklahoma ⓘ dispossession of Native American lands ⓘ foundation of Guthrie, Oklahoma ⓘ foundation of Oklahoma City ⓘ rapid non-Native settlement of central Oklahoma ⓘ
endTime	1895 ⓘ
hasPart	Oklahoma land runs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cherokee Outlet land run Oklahoma land runs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cheyenne-Arapaho land run Oklahoma land runs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Iowa-Sac and Fox-Pottawatomie-Shawnee land run Oklahoma land runs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kickapoo land run Oklahoma land runs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Land Run of 1889
legalBasis	General Allotment Act of 1887 ⓘ surface form: Dawes Act Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 ⓘ treaties with Native American tribes ⓘ
locatedIn	Great Plains ⓘ Oklahoma ⓘ Oklahoma Territory ⓘ
methodOf	allocation of homestead claims ⓘ
participant	African American settlers ⓘ Boomers ⓘ Euro-American settlers ⓘ Oklahoma Sooners ⓘ surface form: Sooners
partOf	settlement of the American West ⓘ westward expansion of the United States ⓘ
significantEvent	opening of Cheyenne-Arapaho lands ⓘ opening of Kickapoo lands ⓘ opening of the Cherokee Outlet ⓘ Unassigned Lands ⓘ surface form: opening of the Unassigned Lands
startTime	1889 ⓘ
typicalHomesteadSize	160 acres ⓘ

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sooner State → hasEtymology → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

Sooner State → associatedWithEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oklahoma Land Run of 1889

Sooner State → associatedWithEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

Oklahoma Territory → notableEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Land Run of 1889

Oklahoma Territory → notableEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Land Run of 1893

Oklahoma Territory → notableEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Land Run of 1895

Unassigned Lands → associatedEvent → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oklahoma Land Run of 1889

Unassigned Lands → notableLandRun → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oklahoma Land Run of 1889

Unassigned Lands → subsequentLandRuns → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oklahoma Land Run of 1891

Cherokee Outlet → event → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cherokee Strip Land Run

Sooner Schooner → inspiredBy → Oklahoma land runs ⓘ