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Indian Territory | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History …
In the 1905 Sequoyah Convention, Indian leaders sought to bypass the territorial process and bring about separate statehood for Indian Territory. However, with the 1907 union of the Indian nations and Oklahoma Territory as the State of Oklahoma, a separate, Indian-dominated territory or state was no longer viable.
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Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian …
From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size of the mines' workforce fivefold. By 1907 Jharia was yielding half of India's output. One of its oldest mines was Khas Jharia, which worked a 260-feet deep source.
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Which of the following is not an example of ways tribes in the Indian
What is not an example of ways tribes in the Indian Territory profited from mining on their lands is "they manufacturing products using minerals." The Five Tribes of the Indian territory were the Cherokee, the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw. They owned their land and had mines in which many people of other territories work.
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University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons
put them in force in the Indian Territory, and a petition to that effect, containing the names of--miners, has been sent to Congress and is now in its possession.
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Your Committee on the Territories to whom was referred II. R. 249, a bill to regulate mines and mining in the Indian Territory, state that they have had the same under careful consideration, …
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Railroads and Coal: Resource Extraction in Indian Territory, …
Powerful Native Americans worked with and against weak railroads from a position of relative strength in the Indian territory. This dissertation argues that railroad companies, endeavoring …
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Coal | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and …
He then began commercial exploitation of Indian Territory's coal deposits. Although the presence of coal had been known for decades, McAlester's contribution was that he was the first to find commercial markets …
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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
As Indian Territory mining operations expanded, Green McCurtain led a movement to make the coal mines national Choctaw property, thereby avoiding the "discovery lease" situation. In 1895 he sponsored such a bill, which failed to pass the Choctaw Council.
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MINES AND MINING IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. tion, and are conducted by the Osage Coal and Mining Company at McAlester and the Atoka Mining Company at Lehigh. The Choctnw Coal and Mining Company is const;rncting a line of railroall from the Arkansas State line, passing through Oklahoma, to the western boun
Coal mining and India's tribal peoples: Inequality …
Critics point out how mining brings about large-scale land dispossession for Adivasis and leads to the pauperisation and destruction of their communities, which are traditionally reliant on access to land and forests.
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Coal-Mining Strikes | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History …
The national Knights of Labor sponsored the first union in Indian Territory when they organized coal miners in 1882. As leader of the coal miners' union in Indian Territory and early Oklahoma, Peter Hanraty stressed negotiation as the means for resolving most labor conflicts, but he recognized that strikes were often necessary.
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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Production commenced in Missouri circa 1850. Although some surface mining produced lead shot during the Civil War, the Oklahoma section remained commercially untapped until the Peoria Mining Land Company of New Jersey opened shafts around Peoria, Indian Territory (present Ottawa County) in 1891.
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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
This was the beginning of Indian Territory's coal-mining industry. The thriving little community of McAlester quickly developed, with a drugstore, hotel, livery stable, and at least three other retail stores. The 1890 population stood at three thousand residents.
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Mining in India: Why the country is facing an uncertain future
In 2010, mining was responsible for around a quarter of Indian GDP, and has been one of the driving forces behind nearly a decade of constant growth, with GDP nearly doubling from $1.32tn in 2009 to $2.6tn in 2017, according to Trading Economics and The World Bank. However, legal instability and a weak mining policy has encouraged rapid ...
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Osage Coal and Mining Company | The Encyclopedia of …
The Osage Company, together with the Atoka Coal and Mining Company, both original subsidiaries of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, paid around $2 million in royalties from 1872 until 1897. The Osage Coal and Mining Company operated in Missouri and Kansas as well as …
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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Lehigh's history began in 1877 when J. D. Davis discovered coal in a creek bed in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (I.T.), which led to the opening of coal mines in the area. Originally known as Boone, this first mining camp in the future Coal County was later renamed Lehigh for the coal-mining district in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
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Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian …
Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947* DILIP SIMEON Introduction The year 1995 marked the centenary of the exploitation of a 400 square kilometre tract in the Indian province of Bihar known as the …
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Coal-Mining Disasters | The Encyclopedia of …
The worst mining disaster during the Indian Territory period occurred in Krebs on January 7, 1892. At the Osage Coal and Mining Company's Mine Number Eleven a "windy shot" set off an explosion that quickly swept through the entire mine, …
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Cattle, Coal
One of the most striking features of coal mining in those days was the proliferation of immigrant communities. Harsh and unsafe con-ditions in the mines made it difficult to attract workers, so agents were often sent to the eastern states and Europe to convince men to migrate to the Indian Territory. Sometimes, agents in Europe were
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Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian …
Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947* DILIP SIMEON Introduction The year 1995 marked the centenary of the exploitation of a 400 square kilometre tract in the Indian province of Bihar known as the Jharia coalfield. From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size
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Unit Test
How did the arrival of railroads impact the Indian Territory's economy? A. Fewer job opportunities were available to non-American Indians. B. The oil and mining industries transported more goods and grew greatly.
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Railroads and Coal: Resource Extraction in Indian Territory, …
Powerful Native Americans worked with and against weak railroads from a position of relative strength in the Indian territory. This dissertation argues that railroad companies, endeavoring to build across Indian territory and gain access to its coal, …
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Coal | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
He then began commercial exploitation of Indian Territory's coal deposits. Although the presence of coal had been known for decades, McAlester's contribution was that he was the first to find commercial markets for the product. In Indian Territory commercial exploitation arrived with the railroads.
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Coal | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and …
Its mining subsidiary, the Rock Island Coal and Mining Company, continued to be one of the most powerful entities in Oklahoma's coal industry until the Great Depression. By 1900 a well-developed railroad network criss …
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Cattle, Coal
Coal mining in the Indian Territory began on a commercial scale with the exploits of James J. McAlester, a colonel in the Confederate Army who planned to attend school in Fort Smith …
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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
As Indian Territory mining operations expanded, Green McCurtain led a movement to make the coal mines national Choctaw property, thereby avoiding the "discovery lease" …
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Osage Coal and Mining Company | The Encyclopedia of …
The Osage Company, together with the Atoka Coal and Mining Company, both original subsidiaries of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, paid around $2 million in royalties from 1872 until 1897. The Osage Coal and Mining Company operated in Missouri and Kansas as well as in Indian Territory.
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OK history chapter 14 Flashcards
Wells drilled in Indian Territory began to bring oil to the surface. Discovery of an underground lake of oil south of Tulsa—Glenn Pool—was to become one of the richest oil fields in the world. The …
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Final answer: Mining was introduced in the Indian Territory after the arrival of white settlers, who were drawn by the discovery of coal, lead, zinc, and salt deposits.Different mining techniques were used to extract these materials. Explanation: Mining first came to the Indian Territory through the arrival of white settlers after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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