INTRODUCTION
In During this era Congress has pass the Curtis Act which was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act; it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory: the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muskogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole. On March 2 1899 Congress allowed railroad companies blanket approval for rights-of-way through Indian lands. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, (1903) was a United States Supreme Court case brought against the US government by the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf, who charged that Native American tribes under the Medicine Lodge Treaty had been defrauded of land by Congressional actions in violation of the treaty. Antiquities Act of 1906 This Congressional Act declared that Indian bones and objects found on federal land were the property of the United States. Burke Act of 1906 is designed to correct certain defects in the General Allotment Act (GAA) of 1887 that intended to break and distribute the Indian reservation lands to individual Indians. The Burke Act provides that at the end of twenty-five years, Indians would be enfranchised as citizens and be subjects of civil and criminal jurisdictions of the state in which they reside. In 1907 Congress established the State of Oklahoma by merging Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. The former Indian Territory was opened to additional non-Indian settlement. In 1917 World War I - When the US entered the war, about 17,000 Indians served in the armed forces. Some Indians, however, specifically resisted the draft because they were not citizens and could not vote or because they felt it would be an infringement of their tribal sovereignty. In 1919, Indian veterans of the war were granted citizenship.