Once the 5 civilized tribes arrive in Oklahoma,
        homes must be built, crops planted, and
        towns established.
 
 

   Tribes kept their ancient system of 
      holding their lands in common.

   1.  No private land was owned.

   2.  All members of a tribe had equal rights .

   3.  Tribal citizens could hunt, fish, and cut timber
         in all places not occupied by towns and farms.

   4.  Tribes followed an open-range practice.

   5.  Before the Civil War only 100,000 people in Ok

        2 persons per square mile/  they paid in taxes.

   6.  Citizens could sell improvements or pass them
                on to his children.

   Soon military roads connecting the forts together.

   1. Santa Fe Road/ California Road

   2. Butterfield Overland Mail and Stage route
 
 

   Workbook page 18