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Blue and green maps of the state of Oklahoma, located in the USA. The two
flags were entered in a 1920s competition for a design for the Oklahoma State
flag.
Source: Kevin Harrington
Of course 1907 is the year Oklahoma attained statehood. 1889 was the year
part of the Indian territory was first opened to white settlement, which
generated a massive land rush. The division on one of the maps seems to define
the eastern domain of the Five Nations before white settlement, the so-called
'Civilized Tribes.' It appears to match the territory of the 'Five Nations',
rather than the similar-but-not-identical-borders of the rump Indian territory
established after the start of white settlement in the west and the founding of
the Oklahoma territory there.
Richard Knipel, 15 June 2004