President Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced eastern tribes to
relocate to Indian Territory in the west.  In 1840, the major Creek
factions, Red Sticks and White Sticks, were reunited in the Creek Nation. 
They, along with four other tribes, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the
Cherokees, and the Seminoles, came to be known as the Five Civilized
Tribes because they adopted the customs of the white settlers around them. 
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, however, enabled white settlers to buy
Indian Territory up in bits and pieces, resulting in more, not less,
division among the various tribes and individuals living there.  As shown
in this council meeting pictured above, the Creeks made efforts to remain
unified in the face of these changes, but by 1 890 enough land bad been
purchased from whites to form the Oklahoma Territory.  When the state of
Oklahoma came into existence in 907, the Creeks and other nations of the
territory were dissolved.