Polity Wyoming Territory

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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.

Establishment

  • July 1868: The Wyoming Territory was organized from portions of Dakota, Idaho, and Utah Territories.
  • July 1868: The U.S. Congress discontinues the Smith River reservation in California and provides for the removal of Indians to Hoope valley and Round valley reservations.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • April 1870: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • September 1872: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • September 1876: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • July 1890: Wyoming Territory was admitted as the forty-fourth state, Wyoming.

Disestablishment

  • July 1890: Wyoming Territory was admitted as the forty-fourth state, Wyoming.

Selected Sources

  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 850