Canadian Historical Review, vol. 53, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 272-288
Description
Discusses how officials excluded the blacks from campaigns promoting settlement in the West, resisted their attempts to take advantage of liberal customs, homestead, and citizenship regulations, and eventually closed the border to them completely.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses the play's treatment of lawlessness and racial violence in Oklahoma prior to it achieving statehood as expressed in the ritual of the shivoree, which was used to show community disapproval of an inappropriate marriage.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer, 1977, pp. 121-131
Description
The authors discusses the Cherokee's attitudes toward slaves and "free Blacks", the laws they created to regulate them, and the possible motivations of the runaway slaves.