- American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
The American Indian Cultural Center & Museum is currently under construction. Visit www.aiccm.org for more information.
Oklahoma county #indian #museum 
- Amos Chapman
Famous Civilian Indian Scout for the U.S. Army, was born in 1839 and died in 1925 He was one of five survivors of the 1874 Buffalo Wallow Fight, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his efforts. Chapman married a Cheyenne woman named Mary Longneck, the daughter of Chief Stone.
Dewey county #indian #military 
- Apache Prisoner-of-War Cemeteries
Apache Prisoner-of-War Cemeteries Here beneath Oklahoma Skies far from their native haunts in Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico is the resting place for more than 300 Apaches of the Chiricahua, Warm Springs, and Nedni tribes. During and after the Geronimo campaign of 1886 these people - hostiles, friendlies, and scouts alike-were sent as prisoners-of-war to Florida, then to Alabama. In 1894 they were brought to Fort Sill where they remained for the next 19 years. Living in 12 villages, with many of their leading men serving ...
Comanche county #cemetery #indian #military 
- Battle of The Washita
2 mi. West Nov. 27, 1868, Col. George A. Custer, commanding 7th Cavalry, attacked the Cheyenne village of Chief Black Kettle. 153 Cheyenne casualties, and 34 U.S. troops killed or wounded. Among the killed was Capt. L.M. Hamilton, grandson of Alexander Hamilton. Battle the start of Sheridan's Washita campaign.
Roger Mills county #battlefield #indian #military 
- Battle of Turkey Springs
Marker is missing (See history below in more information)
Woods county #battle #cavalry #cheyenne #indian #military 
- Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House
National Register Of Historic Places Note: I have linked an article from Chronicles of Oklahoma that has a picture of Chief B.F.Smallwood, his home, and tombstone.
Coal county #architecture #dwelling #indian #nrhp 
- Big Pasture
Big Pasture When Kiowa - Comanche - Apache lands in Oklahoma opened to white settlement 1901. There were 505,000 acres reserved as grazing lands. This area became known as Big Pasture most of region leased for cattle ranching. Because of soil's fertility, white people sought opening of Big Pasture to settlement and farming. Congress passed Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt June 5, 1906, providing such opening. Beginning December 10, 1906, farm lands and town lots sold to highest bidders ...
Tillman county #cattle #expedition #indian #land opening #roosevelt 
- Black Beaver
Black Beaver The famous Delaware Indian Scout 1806-1880 Lived 1/2 mile NW of Anadarko, His gravesite was located near his home site before being moved to Ft. Sill, Comanche County, Ok
Caddo county #cemetery #indian #tombstone 
- Burney Institute
Burney Institute. Site in vicinity south. Established in 1854 by Chickasaw Council, Daugherty Colbert, Chief; David Burney, Joel Kemp, George D. James, A. V. Brown, school trustees. Opened as school for Chickasaw girls 1859, under supervision of Cumberland Presby. Bd., Rev. Robert S. Bell and wife, teachers. Name changed to Chickasaw Orphan Home and Manual Labor School, 1887
Marshall county #chickasaw #indian #orphanage #school 
- Camp Napoleon
Camp Napoleon Here on May 26, 1865 a compact was entered into between the Confederate Indian tribes and the Prairie Indian tribes. "That the ancient council fires shall be kept kindled and blazing" Erected 1931 by Oklahoma College for Women
Grady county #compact #indian 
- Chief Left Hand
Chief Left Hand Born in the 1840's somewhere west of the present Fort Supply. Left Hand ( Niwath also Nawathit) became principle chief of the southern Arapahoes on the death of Little Raven in 1889. A noted buffalo hunter and warrior he survived the Battle of Sand Creek in 1864. In 1867 he sign the Treaty of Medicine Lodge moving the Cheyennes and Arapahoes to Oklahoma and he and his people were at peace with the whites believing the Great Spirit would bring back the buffalo and return the land to the Indians. Left Hand became ...
Blaine county #indian 
- Chief Roman Nose
Henry Roman Nose 1856~1917 Cheyenne chief Henry Roman Nose for whom this State Park was named originally owned this 600 acre tract which comprised his allotment. His campground was located about 50 yards north of here. His grave is one-half mile west of Watonga. Roman Nose State park was opened Mary 16, 1937.
Blaine county #indian 
- Chief Stumbling Bear Pass
Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1867 founded the first permanent settlement of Plains tribes, on Canyon Creek, southwest of here. First government built houses for Indians were erected in the settlement 1877. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1967
Comanche county #chief #indian #kiowa 
- Chiefs Knoll
LOCATED ON THE SOUTH PORTION OF THE FORT SILL POST CEMETERY, CHIEFS KNOLL IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE BURIAL GROUNDS. INTERRED HERE ARE MANY OF THE CHIEFS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TRIBES, INCLUDING MANY OF THE SIGNATORIES OF THE MEDICINE LODGE PEACE TREATY OF 1867. KIOWA CHIEF SATANK, COMANCHE CHIEF QUANAH PARKER, AND LITTLE RAVE OF THE ARAPAHO ARE AMONG THE MANY BURIED
Comanche county #cemetery #indian #tombstone - Chouteau's Post
Oldest permanent American settlement in state. Grew out of Chaouteau's furn trade at St. Louis, with Osages after they settled in this region in 1802 from Missouri. Improvements here in 1817 became residence of Col. A. P. Chouteau, West Point grad., noted in western U.S. official life and for many posts in Indian trade.
Mayes county #french #indian #osage #school #settlement #trade 
- Colony
Colony One of the oldest towns in Western Oklahoma founded in 1886 by John Seger and the Cheyenne-Arapaho on the banks of Cobb Creek. Seger Indian Industrial School operated here from 1892 until 1932. Local tradition holds this was a starting point for the Land run of 1892. Dutch Reformed Misson opened here in 1895. Post Office established Jan. 8, 1896. Buildings in this block built in 1920"s by Fred Kauger and restored by Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Yvonne Kauger. Long before the 20th Century, Native Americans occupied ...
Washita county #indian 
- Comancheria
Comancheria The domain of the Comanches from early 1700's to Mid 1800's. Reached from the foot hills of the Rockies to New Mexico. Eastward to the cross timbers of Texas and Oklahoma and from the Arkansas River to Kansas , south to the Texas Pecos River, Rio Grande area. The Nation was 600 miles from north and south, 400 miles from East to West. Among the 1st Plains Indians to acquire horses from Spanish settlers. Comanches soon became legendary horsemen. Seizing control of Comancheria and securing there Land of ...
Kiowa county #comanche #indian 
- Cowboy Cemetery
On September 12, 1878, the bodies of Reuben Bristow and Fred Clark were found near hear. It was believed they had been killed by Northern Cheyenne Indians lead by Chief Dull Knife. Bristow and Clark where cowboys hauling salt for Comanche Pool cattle when Dull Knife fled harsh conditions on the reservation near canton. The salt haulers, probably crossed the path of the Cheyenne during their desperate flights home to the northern plains.
Woods county #cemetery #cowboy #indian - Custer's Rendezvous
In This VicinityOn 2 Mar. 1896 with 2 regts. of cavalry Gen. G. A. Custer departed Medicine Creek Camp (Now Ft. Sill) on expedition against plains indians here on 5 March he met large suppy train dispatched for his use from Camp Supply by Gen P. H Sheridan. Oklahoma Historical Society 1959
Kiowa county #cavalry #custer #expedition #indian 
- Darlington - Monument
Darlington Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency Established there 1870, by Brinton Darlington, Quaker, Indian Agent appointed by President Grant. Important Stop on Chisholm Trail Site of Arapaho School, John H. Seger, Supt. Post Office Established in 1873, and First Newspaper "Cheyenne Transporter" in Western Indian Territory published there, 1879. Oklahoma Historical Society Add your comment
Canadian county #agriculture #education #indian #religion 
- Darlington Agency Site
Darlington Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency Established there 1870, by Brinton Darlington, Quaker, Indian Agent appointed by President Grant. Important Stop on Chisholm Trail Site of Arapaho School, John H. Seger, Supt. Post Office Established in 1873, and First Newspaper "Cheyenne Transporter" in Western Indian Territory published there, 1879.
Canadian county #agriculture #education #indian #religion 
- Euchee Mission Boarding School
Euchee Mission Boarding School In 1891, the Presbyterian Mission Board began plans to established a school among the Euchee Indians in this area. Much credit for founding the school is due to Samuel Brown, Noah Gregory, Henry Land, and William Sapulpa. Their work influenced the Creek council to appropriate money for the school from tribal funds. Buildings were constructed and the school opened in the fall of 1894 with about fifty students. At first the school was coeducational and had only two dormitories and a three-room schoolhouse ...
Creek county #euchee #indian #mission #school 
- Fort Sill
Old Post Site first occupied by Wichita Indian Village. Post Established Jan 8, 1864 By Geo P.M. Sheridan To Control Tribes. National Register of Historic Places Fort Sill *** (added 1966 - District - #66000629) US 62, Fort Sill Historic Significance: Event Area of Significance: Military Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899 Owner: Federal Historic Function: Defense, Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction Historic Sub-function: Institutional Housing, Military Facility, Water Works ...
Comanche county #indian #military 
- Fort Sill Indian School
Old Fort Sill Indian School 1900-1924 KGA Land USF Fort Sill Indian School Kio-man-che Gate Emergency Phone # 248-6301 Fort Sill Indian School added 1973 to the national register of historic places (Building - #7Ol3001559)
Comanche county #indian 
- Geronimo Grave Marker
Geronimo's Grave Marker, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Geronimo (June 16, 1829–February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long warred against the encroachment of the United States on tribal lands. He died of pneumonia at Fort Sill in 1909.
Comanche county #cemetery #indian - Governor Cyrus Harris
Cyrus Harris, Chickasaw-Scot, was born in 1817 in Mississippi. After removal to Indian Ty., he was elected first governor of the Chickasaw Nation in 1856. This noted Indian leader died at his Mill Creek home, 1888. His grave is 1 1/2 mi. w. of this marker.
Murray county #cheif #chickasaw #grave #indian #indian - Governor Cyrus Harris
Cyrus Harris, Chickasaw-Scot, was born in 1817 in Mississippi. After removal to Indian Ty., he was elected first governor of the Chickasaw Nation in 1856. This noted Indian leader died at his Mill Creek home, 1888. His grave is 1 1/2 mi. w. of this marker.
Murray county #cheif #chickasaw #grave #indian #indian - J. B. Milam Memorial Marker
J. BARTLEY MILAM, Principal Chief of the Cherokees. The Cherokee government had been dismantled in 1907 when Oklahoma became a state. In 1941, Milam was appointed Chief for a year by Franklin D. Roosevelt and was reappointed until his death in 1949. His main goals were to reconstruct the tribal government, and the preservation of Cherokee property, and historical manuscripts. "He gave in abundance of funds."
Mayes county #cherokees #indian - James Bigheart
The Osage Chief grave here 1909 when the Osages came to live in Indian Ter. after the Civil War. Bigheart became chief and led in organizing the Osage nation under a written constitution. He had a trading post at Bigheart, now Barnsdall, and led in saving for the Osages by act of Congress in 1906 all mineral rights that brought them wealth in oil.
Osage county #cemetery #chief #grave #indian #osage 
- Kiowa Tribal Museum
The Kiowa Tribe Museum and Resource Center opened its doors in 1984, all the artifacts are Kiowa.
Kiowa county #artifact #indian #musuem 
- Massacre of Pat Hennssey
Massacre of Pat Hennessey Freighter Hennessey's charred body tied to his wagon wheel was found in a smoldering fire near 3 of his drivers, all killed on July 4, 1874, in last Indian war when his train was on way along Chisholm Trail to Kiowa Agency. Grave is 2 blocks West. Oklahoma Histoircal Society and State Highway Commission 1957
Kingfisher county #indian #massacre #wars 
- Millie Durgan
Millie Durgan, White Captive, Kiowa Name: Sain-to-hoodle. Captured at age eighteen months in the Elk Creek Raid. No. Texas, Fall, 1864. Adopted by the Kiowa tribe and married a Kiowa named Goombi. True identity not known until three years before her death in 1934. Buried in the Old Rainy Mt. Cemetery southwest of Mountain View, Oklahoma
Kiowa county #indian 
- Old Black Kettle Museum
UPDATE: This museum is no more. They have moved everything to the new Washita Battlefield National Historic Site Visitors Center to the west of town. The building is now the Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce. Museum focuses on the Cheyenne people and the attack of George Armstrong Custer on Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle's village November 27, 1868. The museum serves at present as the interpretive center for the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. The museum includes Cheyenne history, Oklahoma history, art and artifacts, area ...
Roger Mills county #indian #museum 
- Old Rainy Mountain Cemetery K - C - A Intertribal Burial Grounds
Old Rainy Mt. Cemetery K~C~A Intertribal Burial Grounds Kiowa~Comanche~Apache This is the original Cemetery and has the graves of some of the well-known Indians of the area.
Kiowa county #cemetery #indian #tombstone - Parker, Quanah, Star House
Parker, Quanah, Star House (added 1970 - Building - #70000532) Also known as Quanah Parker House Eagle Park, Cache Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Person Architect, builder, or engineer: Unknown Architectural Style: No Style Listed Historic Person: Parker,Quanah Significant Year: 1880, 1958 Area of Significance: Native American, Military, Politics/Government, Architecture, Social History Period of Significance: 1875-1899 Owner: Private Historic Function: Domestic ...
Comanche county #architecture #indian 
- Pawnee Agency
Pawnee Agency Established 1874. Pawnees sold their Nebraska lands and bought reservation here, selected by chiefs ans WM. Burgess U.S. Agent. Pawnee Boarding was opened near agency in 1877. Reservation opened to white settlement Sept. 16, 1893. Agency consolidated ,1928, for 5 tribes, Pawnee, Oto, Ponca, Tonkawa and Kaw. Oklahoma Historical Society 162 - 19995 Manufactured by Willis Granite Products Granite, OK
Pawnee county #boarding school #indian #nrhp #reservation 
- Peace On The Plains
About 5 mi. S.E. Wichita Village in Devil's Canyon was scene of 1st meeting between the U.S. and Plains Indians in Oklahoma to promote peace, July 21, 1834. U.S. Dragoon Regiment under command of Col. Henry Dodge accompanied by other noted officers and civilians including Capts. David Hunter and Nathan Boon; 1st Lt. Jefferson Davis, Ex-Gov. Montfort Stokes, N.C. and George Catlin, Artist.
Greer county #indian #military 
- Pikey's Crossing
Logo: The Great Seal Of The Chickasaw Nation. Pikey's Crossing Pikey's Crossing (circa 1867), on the south Canadian River, was established by Benson Pikey. A Chickasaw born in Mississippi and Trail of Tears survivor. He was elected as a Representative to the Chickasaw House before and after the Civil War, and served as Speaker of the Chickasaw House. During the Civil War, Ben fought for the Confederacy serving as Captain of Company G in Shecoe's Chickasaw Battalion of Mounted Volunteers. Pikey's Crossing served as an entry site ...
Grady county #chickasaw #crossing #indian #nation #river 
- Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum
Take a walk on the wild side in lawyer/gunfighter Temple Houston's hometown museum. Frontier-town vignettes feature Houston's office, a bank, saloon, jail, photo studio, and newspaper office. Native American exhibits feature the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Tour the picket-style Lee/Lienemann combination homesteader's cabin and horse stable. Murals by Paul Laune, Pat "Kemoha" Patterson, Fred Olds and Jana Sol. Tourist information center, gift shop and art gallery on site.
Woodward county #indian #museum #pioneer 
- Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker The Last Comanche Chief Quanah Parker the last of the Comanche chief was born in Elk Creek just below the Washita mountains circa 1850. Quanah, the son of Pitih Norony and Cynitha Ann Parker who was captured by the Comanches, became a fierce warrior and skillfully defended Comancheria against all invades. Col. Ronald McKenzie pursued Quanah for years but never captured or defeated him. The destruction of the buffalo forced Quanah to lead the Comanche down this trail to Fort Sill in June 1878 A ...
Kiowa county #indian 
- Quanah Parker Grave Marker
Here Until Day Break And Shadows Fall And Darkness Disappears Is Quahah Parker Chief Of The Comanches Born - 1852 Died Feb 23, 1911. This Monument Erected Under Act Of Congress. Approved June 23, 1920
Comanche county #cemetery #indian 
- Rainy Mountain Kiowa Indian Baptist Church
Rainy Mtn. Kiowa Indian Baptist Church Est. 1893 First Missionaries Marieeta K. Reeside (AM ~ DE ~ GO) Lauretta Ballew Women's Baptist Home Mission Society Chicago Julia Given Hunt ~ First Interpreter Charter Members Mrs. BIGTREE (OMEBO) ~ First Convert GOTEBO her brother ~ second convert KA ~ LO ~ MAH PEAH ~ MAH PEAT ~ TAW KON ~ TAH ~ MAH TAH ~ KOI ~ MAH
Kiowa county #church #indian #pioneer 
- Red Wheat Allotment
SW 1/4, S18, T12N, R16W In 1869 President U.S. Grant amended the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek to establish a reservation in western Oklahoma south of the Cherokee Outlet for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. In 1887 Congress passed the General Allotment Act. Which called for the division of the reservation into one-square-mile sections. These were subdivided into 160-acre quarter-sections for allotment to individuals. A Cheyenne woman whose name was recorded as "Red Wheat" was allotted this quarter section prior to the Cheyenne ...
Custer county #indian - Rev. Jesse Bushyhead Grave
Sacred to the memory of Rev. Jesse Bushyhead Born in the old Cherokee nation. Sept. 1804 Died in the present Cherokee Nation July 17, 1844.
Adair county #baptist #cemetery #cherokee #grave #indian #trail of tears 
- Riverside School
Riverside School Begun by U.S. Quaker Agents 1871 This school opened at the Indian agency on Sugar Creek with 8 pupils. A new building was erected as a boarding school in 1872 for Wichita and Caddo children. Fire in 1878 destoryed the school. It soon reopened in a new building here on the Washita and continues as the oldest boarding school in the United States Indian Service. Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Highway Commission 1974
Caddo county #indian #school 
- Rock Spring Baptist Church
Rock Spring Baptist Church 1/4 Mile East First Baptist Church Among Oklahoma Plains Indians Organized 1874 by Rev. John McIntosh, Creek Indian. First known Baptist Missionary to these tribes. First trip summer 1874 under auspices of Creek Baptist Assn. Sermon text John 3:16, Black Beaver Interpreter. "This is the word from the Great Spirit Above to all His children." ~~McIntosh. Oklahoma Baptist Historical Commission White Sign: Rock Spring Indian Baptist Church Wichita Tribal Cemetery
Caddo county #church #indian 
- Sac & Fox Agency
Sac & Fox Agency. 4 mi. South. Established 1869 on reservation of Sac and Fox Indians who where moved here from Kansas. Reservation lands allotted tribal members and surplus opened to White settlement in 1891. Noted members of the tribe include Chief Moses Keokuk. Dr. William Jones, anthropologist, and Jim Thorpe, internationally known athlete.
Lincoln county #agency #indian #sac&fox #settlement 
- Sac & Fox Veterans Memorial
Dedicated in the Memory of Our Warriors Past, Present, & Future
Lincoln county #indian #memorial #sac&fox #veterans 
- Saline Courthouse
The Saline District Courthouse is the last remaining of nine courthouses for the districts of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. The current structure was built in 1884. The site sits on 14 acres where three fresh water springs meet. It was recently designated as The Saline National Park, the first Cherokee national park. Preservation efforts are currently underway and a Master Plan adopted for the site. More information can be found on www.salinecourthouse.org.
Delaware county #cherokee #courthouse #indian - San Bernardo
San Bernardo site in immediate vicinity west 'Oklahoma's oldest town on red river' the great village of the wichita indians with a french trading post here was named in honor of gov. bernardo de galvez, in 1778 when Oklahoma was a part of Louisiana. Oklahoma Historical Society, 1950
Jefferson county #indian #taovayas #trading post #wichita 
- Spiro Mounds
Welcome to Spiro Mounds. The Interpretive Center has displays about the Caddoan Indians who created this important ceremonial complex between A.D. 600 and A.D. 1450. There is also an interpretive trail system that loops past all twelve mounds. Each mound was created from layer upon layer of dirt carried in the baskets. Nine mounds were made as "platforms" for the primary leaders homes, two were for main religious buildings and one was to cover the burials of the leaders. Some of the mounds were looted by commercial diggers from ...
LeFlore county #archeological #indian 
- St. Johns School / Osage Indian Boys
St. John's school for Osage indian boys 1888-1913 8 mi n. Est. October 1888 along Hominy Creek by St. Katharine Drexel and the bureau of catholic indian missions, after repeated requests by Osage tribe for a catholic school. Original log compound replaced by four-story stone building in 1893. Operated by franciscan sisters (1888-1907) and christian brothers (1907-1913). Sponsored by the Osage Tribal Council, Oklahoma Historical Society 240-2000
Osage county #catholic #church #indian #osage #school 
- Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the site of the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle that was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer just before dawn on November 27, 1868. The controversial strike was hailed at the time by the military and many civilians as a significant victory aimed at reducing Indian raids on frontier settlements. Washita remains controversial because many Indians and whites labeled Custer's attack a massacre. Black Kettle is still honored as ...
Roger Mills county #battlefield #indian #military
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