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2. Kerry Wynn, "State of Oklahoma," in The Uniting States: the Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States, ed. Benjamin F. Shearer (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004), 3:972.
3. Wynn, "State of Oklahoma," 3:974.
4. Wynn, "State of Oklahoma," 3:975.
5. Frank Rzeczkowski, "Dawes Commission," in Dictionary of American History, ed. Stanley I. Kutler, 3d ed. (New York: Charles Scibner's Sons, 2003), 2:506.