Editing Cherokee Outlet (section)

==Boomers==
The lease to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association was nullified by Congress in 1890, which then authorized purchasing the land from the Cherokees for $1.25 per acre. Having previously rejected a bid from the cattlemen to buy the land for $3.00 per acre, the Cherokee protested in vain that the government price was too low. President [[Benjamin Harrison]] forbade all grazing in the Cherokee Outlet after October 2, 1890, which eliminated all profit from leasing the land.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70953 |title= Benjamin Harrison: 'Proclamation 296 – Prohibiting Grazing on Cherokee Strip lands, Indian Territory,' February 17, 1890 |author1= Peters, Gerhard |author2= Woolley, John T |publisher= University of California – Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project |access-date= 17 January 2016 |archive-date= 11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160611063551/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70953 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70955 |title= Benjamin Harrison: 'Proclamation – Extending the Time for Cattlemen to Move Herds off the Cherokee Strip', September 19, 1890 |author1= Peters, Gerhard |author2= Woolley, John T |publisher= University of California – Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project |access-date= 17 January 2016 |archive-date= 11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160611061738/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70955 |url-status= dead }}</ref> After that, the Cherokee sold off the land at prices ranging from $1.40 to $2.50 per acre.<ref name="EOHC-Cherokee Outlet">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH021 Alvin O. Turner, "Cherokee Outlet.", ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Retrieved July 29, 2013.</ref>  The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association disbanded in 1893, the same year the outlet was opened to non-Indian settlement.<ref name="EOHC-CSLSA">{{cite web|last1=Snodgrass|first1=Jimmy|title=Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association|url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH025|website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=May 20, 2016|date=2009}}</ref>

Actual payment did not occur until 1964, when the Cherokee finally settled their claims against the U.S. government for the actual value of the Cherokee Strip land opened to settlement in 1893. This amounted to about $14.7 million, which was paid to the original allotment holders or their heirs. The tribe also received an additional $2 million in accrued interest.<ref name="Lowe">[http://fivetribes.tripod.com/wwkeeler.html Lowe, Marjorie. "Let's Make It Happen: W.W. Keeler and Cherokee Renewal." ''The Chronicles of Oklahoma''.] Retrieved August 28, 2013.</ref>

The [[Oklahoma organic act|Organic Act of 1890]] incorporated the unassigned lands into the new [[Oklahoma Territory]].<ref>Acts of the Fifty-First Congress, First Session: Oklahoma Organic Act of May 2, 1890, ch. 182, 26 Stat. 81. Laws and Treaties Vol 1. (Statutes, Executive Orders, Proclamations, and Statistics of Tribes) Compiled to December 1, 1902 by Charles J. Kappler, LL., M., Clerk to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903</ref>  Oklahoma became the 46th state on November 16, 1907.