Sooner (other)
Sooner or Sooners may refer to: * Sooners, early Oklahoma, US settlers ** Oklahoma Sooners, University of Oklahoma varsity sports teams named after the early settlers * Ottawa Sooners, Canadian football team in Ontario * 18876 Sooner, asteroid * ''A Girl Named Sooner'', a 1975 TV movie * Sooner (streaming service), Sooner, a movie streaming service available in Germany and all Benelux countries * "Sooner", a 2023 song by Slowthai from the album ''Ugly (Slowthai album), Ugly'' *''Sooner Magazine'' University of Oklahoma alumni publication See also * * * Sooner or Later (other) * ''The Sooner It Comes'', album by Aloud * Schooner (other) {{dab ...
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Sooners
Sooners is the name given to settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma before the official start of the Land Rush of 1889. The Unassigned Lands were a part of Indian Territory that, after a lobbying campaign, were to be opened to American settlement in 1889. President Benjamin Harrison officially proclaimed the Unassigned Lands open to settlement on April 22, 1889. As people lined up around the borders of the Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma District, they waited for the official opening. It was not until noon that it officially was opened to settlement. The name derived from the "sooner clause" of ''Proclamation 288 — Opening to Settlement Certain Lands in the Indian Territory'', which stated that anyone who entered and occupied the land prior to the opening time would be denied the right to claim land. The designation "Sooner" initially had a very negative connotation. While "Boomers" were merely expressing "pioneer spirit" in their desire t ...
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