History of 1907.

[Swede]

Some things never change.

March 21 U.S. invades Honduras
March 31 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
August 31 Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet
August 31 England, Russia and France form Triple Entente
December 19 Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
December 20 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
December 21 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget.


http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1907.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. Also the Indian Territory was abolished in 1907

The Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined in 1907 to create the state of Oklahoma. I mention it not to celebrate the entry of Oklahoma into the Union but to point out 1907 was also the year Europeans had finally grabbed all the land between Canada and Mexico that they had promised at various times to preserve for the original Native American peoples. (Arizona and New Mexico would enter the Union later as states, but the Indian territory in what's now Oklahoma was where various tribes were compelled to relocate to.) The eastern part of present-day Oklahoma which was the Indian Territory and the legal home of the "five civilized tribes", was the last remnant of a vast inland country that once included all land West of the Appalachian Mtns. (per treaty obligations of the British Royal gov't), then the land west of the Mississippi (post-American Revolution and Louisiana Purchase), then the land between the Red River in the south and the lower Missouri River. After creation of Oklahoma as the 46th state, the concept of Indian tribal sovereignty over anything like a separate country of their own ceased completely, and only the reservation system remains as its echo. The reason for the final liquidation of the Indian Territory? Along with continuing pressure from whites for more land to settle, Oklahoma turned out to be rich in--yep, you guessed it--oil.