Editing Oklahoma (section)

=== European exploration and colonization ===

The expedition of Spaniard [[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado]] traveled through the area in 1541,<ref name="OK History">{{cite web| url=http://www.ok.gov/osfdocs/stinfo2.html| title=Oklahoma's History| publisher=Government of Oklahoma| access-date=August 1, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070726075125/http://www.ok.gov/osfdocs/stinfo2.html| archive-date=July 26, 2007| url-status=dead}}</ref> but French explorers claimed the area in the early 18th century.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknowata/FrSPEX.htm|title= French and Spanish Explorations| publisher=rootsweb |website=A Brief History of Oklahoma |first1=Ann |last1=Maloney | access-date=August 1, 2007}}</ref> By the 18th century, Comanche and Kiowa entered the region from the west and Quapaw and Osage peoples moved into what is now eastern Oklahoma. French colonists claimed the region until 1803, when all the French territory west of the Mississippi River was acquired by the United States in the [[Louisiana Purchase]].<ref name="OK History" /> The territory was a part of the [[Arkansas Territory]] from 1819 until 1828.<ref>{{cite book|title=Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uSaBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 |page=49|last1=Dary|first1=David|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=February 10, 2015|isbn=9780806151717}}</ref>