- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The development of Caddoan tradition societies distinguished the period between A D 800 and 1200 in eastern Oklahoma These were more socially complex than earlier societies Political elites used nonlocal resources, especially those derived from long distances, to symbolize their unique social positions
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Beginning around 4,000 years ago in the eastern United States, prehistoric societies began to manipulate indigenous plants such as sunflower, gourd, chenopodium (pigweed), and amaranth (goosefoot), promoting the development of larger fruits and seeds
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The complex societies represented by the Spiro Phase of east-central Oklahoma collapsed for unknown reasons around A D 1450 These societies were replaced by less complex organizations associated with the Fort Coffee Phase of A D 1450–1650 or 1700
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Native peoples' settlements now became larger, more numerous, and more permanently built During this time of some 4,000 to 2,000 years ago significant changes occurred in the character of prehistoric societies, and they became Hunters, Gathers, and Traders (recognized in past literature as Foragers or occupying the Archaic Period)
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
In general, eastern Oklahoma is more densely populated than western Oklahoma, with the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa containing between them about 1 8 million people The remaining major cities, all under one hundred thousand people, with the exception of Enid, either border Interstate 35 or are east of the highway
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Between 1803 and 1861 the people and the institutions of the United States expanded into what is now Oklahoma This phenomenon did not take place in isolation, nor was it a sequence of random events that were of little consequence to the basic sweep of national development
- World War II | Oklahoma Historical Society
In Oklahoma triumphant civil rights cases gained attention, including Sipuel vs Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1948) and McLaurin v Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (1950) The developments in civil rights for African American communities meant increases in economic opportunities and decreases in legal and physical
- Appendix Y - Oklahoma Historical Society
Urban Development: Although Oklahoma has been predominately an urban state for only the past few decades, its urban heritage dates to the first domestication of plants Subthemes include villages, trading posts, farm communities, boomtowns, urban rivalry, rural-to-urban demographics, All-Black towns, growth of the large metropolitan
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