A historical U.S. term for lands set aside for Native American tribes, mainly in the 19th century. It most often refers to the region that later became Oklahoma. The phrasing is dated and can feel insensitive today.
Beginning in 1894, the Dawes Commission was established to register Choctaw and other families of the Indian Territory, so that the former tribal lands could be properly distributed among them. Source: Internet
Believing removal was inevitable and hoping to preserve rights for Choctaw in Indian Territory and Mississippi, LeFlore drafted a treaty and sent it to Washington, DC. Source: Internet
At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees and began to look at alternatives for the future of the school. Source: Internet
Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux/Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands to Indian Territory in 1877, parts of the current Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma. Source: Internet
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on September 08 slammed Centre on over china's intrusion in Indian Territory. Source: Internet
Discovered in 1712, the Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. Source: Internet