The Enabling Act of 1906,[1] in its first part, empowered the people residing in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to elect delegates to a state constitutional convention and subsequently to be admitted to the union as a single state.

This resulted in passage of the Oklahoma Enabling Act, which President Roosevelt signed June 16, 1906.

Coyle v. Smith was the U.S. Supreme Court Case that helped define the equal footing doctrine.

As a result, the provision of the enabling act which temporarily restricted Oklahoma's right to determine where its seat of government would be was unconstitutional.

In July 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had failed to disestablish the reservations in the Enabling Act and so for purposes of the Major Crimes Act, those lands that were former reservations should be considered Indian country, overseen by federal jurisdiction.