2. The Osage Trade by Oklahoma Artist Charles Banks Wilson.
Unit 3
Settlement
The Osage Trade by Oklahoma Artist Charles Banks Wilson.

3. Indian Appropriations Act
Chapter 12
Boomer Sooner
Elias C. Boudinot
David L. Payne
The Boomer Movement
Indian Appropriations Act
Opening the Lands
The Sooners
The Race for Land

4. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Discuss the Boomer efforts to settle in the Unassigned Lands before the lands were opened for settlement.
Identify:
Buffalo soldiers
Boomers
Sooners
Colonization Association
Unassigned Lands
How were Indian leaders divided on the issue of opening their unoccupied lands for settlement?

5. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Tell about the attempt of William L. Couch and his followers to settle in the Unassigned Lands.
Who were the groups who lobbied for opening the lands for settlement and what were their special interests?
Who were the groups who lobbied against opening the lands and what were their special interests?
Who was qualified to establish a land claim, and then, how would the homesteader hold the claim?

6. Elias C. Boudinot

7. David L. Payne

8. William L. Couch

9. The race is on in the movie Cimarron which is set
during the time of the Oklahoma Land Run.