Farming in Oklahoma

About 900 A.D. Indians of Oklahoma grew beans, corn, and pumpkins. In the 1850's mixed-blood plantation owner Choctaw Robert M. Jones cultivated more than 5,000 acres and shipped his cotton to New Orleans on his own steam boats.

Five Civilized Tribes

The Five Civilized Tribes--the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole--were the latgest and most numerous tribes in the Indian Territory. During the Revolutionary War they occupied lands in the Colonial Southeast, from the Carolinas and Florida to Tennessee and Mississippi.