Abolishing America (contd.): Obama Regime Bans Oklahoma Land Run Reenactments
“Oklahoma Land Openings”—courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society
The Oklahoma Land Run was one of the most incredible episodes in America’s conquest of the continent, and one of the most important parts of the state’s history. And that’s precisely why “our” federal government is making sure students don’t learn about it anymore.
The Oklahoma Land Run was how land was distributed to white settlers in the northwest quarter of Oklahoma, not counting the Panhandle. (See map, above). The land runs took place from 1889 to 1895.
The Land Run (also called Land Rush) was a race for land.Prospective landowners lined up along the outside perimeter of the territory being settled. At noon the guns were fired, and the participants raced to claim 160-acre portions of land. If they could occupy the land for five years, they would receive title to it.
My great-grandfather, Illinois-born Charles Ephraim Wall moved to Oklahoma with his family in 1893. At sixteen years of age, he was too young to stake a claim himself, but his family was in the Cherokee Strip Run. The family lost out in the run because “sooners” (people who snuck in early to claim the land) got there first. But if you didn’t get acquire a farm in a land run, if you just stayed in the area you might actually get some property, as some claimants decided to leave. So my great-grandfather stayed in Oklahoma and eventually founded the farm on which I grew up. ...
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