Question

Describe the four plans of statehood for Oklahoma. Which can you infer was the one that most favored Native Americans? Why?

Answer 1

Before the passage of the Oklahoma Enabling Act in 1906, there were four statehood plans:

- Single statehood, which meant that they would join the remaining Indian Territory and become a single state.

- Double Statehood, they would be two states, Oklahoma and Indian Territory would become the State of Sequoyah.

- Oklahoma would become a state and the Indian Territory would later join.

- Oklahoma would become a state and each Native American Tribe would join later until the total of the Indian Territory would become a state.

The Double Statehood was the most favored by Native Americans because it preserved their territory separated from the Oklahoma Territory.

Answer 2

The greatest impetus for Oklahoma statehood began after the Land Run of ... Before the passage of theOklahoma Enabling Act (1906), four statehood plans evolved. ... Indians in O.T. were held in trust by the federal government for twenty-one ... Indian leaders and whites in Indian Territory (I.T.) favored doublestatehood.The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that ... Until this point, Native Americans had exclusively used the land. ... was one of the main supporters of the opening of Oklahoma to white settlement. .... due to the growing idea of statehood, which had originated in Indian Territory.