After the Cherokee allied themselves with the Confederacy, efforts began in Congress to take away their land. This was done relatively quickly after the end of the Civil War.
Whether or not Oklahoma has ever been "policed" is a real question, but not one to be addressed in this thread about the whack jobs in San Francisco.
165 posted on 11/24/2005 7:15:18 PM PST by muawiyah
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