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But was it? Amanda Kingston, ‘”Oklahoma was empty”: Storying Land in Oklahoma Land Run Settler Memory’, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 40, 2, 2025, pp. 16-34

16Sep25

Excerpt: ‘You know’, the studendt responded, ‘where we dress up like pioneers and line up at a park to run and stake our claim. Just like the 89ers’. Prior to my teaching in Oklahoma, I was vaguely familiar with the history of the Oklahoma Land Runs in the late 1880s and 1890s. The federal government had brokered treaties of Oklahoma territory—or “Indian Territory”—at that time with Indigenous Nations such as the Cherokee Nation through the Treaty of Echota and the Choctaw Nation through the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. While I knew pieces of these histories, I did not yet know about the widespread reenactment practices in elementary school in which school children lined up along a playground, dressed in pioneer garb with cowboy hats and make-shift covered wagons, waiting for the signal to run and claim a piece of the land. Nor had I considered the exact work schooling did in the United States to uphold particular structures of a settler nation-state society.


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