federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands in the southeast. The Act then forced five Indian tribes‚ the Cherokee‚ Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ (Muskogee)-Creek and Seminole tribes‚ to move to the Indian Territories‚ in Oklahoma. 1 The Cherokee’s removal is the one most famous and most often remembered. The
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tornadoes per year in Alaska‚ Rhode Island and Vermont is closer to zero than to one. In Oklahoma and Texas‚ the average jumps to 52 and 126‚ respectively‚ though the high number in Texas is mainly due to the state’s size. To account for the different sizes of states‚ tornado averages for the USA are compared by looking at the annual number per 10‚000 square miles — an around about the size of Vermont. For example‚ Oklahoma is about 70‚000 square miles‚ or about seven Vermonts. If the entire state averages
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In 1930‚ California had 5.7 million residents‚ and the population shrank as 120‚000 Mexicans were banished. In the 1930s‚ farmers from the Midwestern Dust Bowl states‚ especially Oklahoma and Arkansas‚ began to move to California; 250‚000 arrived by 1940‚ including a third who moved into the San Joaquin Valley‚ which had a 1930 population of 540‚000. During the 1930s‚ some 2.5 million people left the Midwest states. The Modesto Bee on September 30‚ 2008 reviewed Dust Bowl migration to California
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within my Latino community. I have attended numerous leadership conferences aimed at Hispanic students‚ including the Hispanic Youth Leadership Conference at the Oklahoma City University and the TREE Conference at the University of Oklahoma. I was also selected to attend the Latinos Without Borders Fall Camp at the University of Oklahoma. Attending all of these events have changed my life‚ because I have learned how to fight the barriers that plague my community and culture. It is important to me
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Nancy Leonard. Nancy Leonard had much adjustment to do when she moved from Illinois‚ where she was surrounded by loving family and friends‚ to a remote community in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Similarly‚ I was raised a lively community in Vietnam‚ and all was new to me when I moved halfway across the world to the small town of Altus‚ Oklahoma. From a neighborhood where gates were almost always open and the streets animated with sounds of children‚ I felt secluded in quiet Altus‚ where doors were always closed
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NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma‚ 468 U.S. 85 (1984)‚ was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) television plan violated the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts. These antitrust laws were designed to prohibit group actions that restrained open competition and trade. The NCAA was an organization that regulated college athletics‚ and membership was voluntary‚ although NCAA schools were not allowed
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emergent issue‚ in some states because of fracking. Oklahoma‚ home to hundreds of fracking sites‚ now has more earthquake-prone than California‚ also the fact it’s near the belt. Between 1990 and 2008‚ Oklahoma had only three earthquakes per year that registered at 3.0 or more on the Richter scale. In 2013‚ Oklahoma had 109 earthquakes. That number has increased to 238 as of June 2014.(Source D) One quake caused by drilling destroyed 14 homes in Oklahoma City‚ injuring two families and buckled pavement
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strengthened her into the strong‚ brave woman that she grew into. Ada married a young man who enlisted in the military during World War II. He was deported to duty and had to leave Ada behind to fend for herself. Segregation had taken over the state of Oklahoma. Even education was segregated where the state had two different schools for the races white and black. Ada was given the chance that all blacks and any separated groups had only dreamed of doing‚ standing up to the schools of the state and change
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1930’s‚ that affected the midwestern people‚ for example the farmers‚ and which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas‚ families‚ tribes‚ dusted out. Carloads‚ caravans‚ homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains‚ hungry and
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