Indian Territory

<p><strong>Indian Territory: Surviving 160 Acres of Betrayal</strong> is the true story of a Mvskoke family's dispossession-and the larger untold history of Tulsa Oklahoma. <em>A state of corruption born by the deeds of dishonest men. </em></p><p>Written as a historical memoir this book journeys through the Allotment Era to expose how so-called progress stripped Native families of land language wealth and culture. Shrouded by mysterious deaths and legal deceit the story centers on two young Mvskoke sisters-still only pre-teen girls-forced to shoulder a battle no child should face as their Creek-speaking father struggled to defend them.</p><p>Guardians and Tulsa County courts seized the land they owned the house their father built and the wealth they had begun to build-funneling it into guardianships that left the family impoverished.</p><p>Both an intimate family history and an unflinching indictment of the laws and institutions that turned survival into a legal battleground this book reclaims a chapter of American history too long ignored.</p><p>A story of dispossession survival and generational resilience told by the bloodline who endured it <strong>Indian Territory</strong> gives voice to one family's fight-and to countless others silenced across Indian Territory.</p>