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Return to USA Black Heritage Portal This is a sub-project for the Afro-, Africans throughout the Americas Master Project and the U.S. Westward Expansion/Wild West project. This project is about Blacks of the Old West (outside of the original 13 colonies/states). It not only looks at the Black cowboys , which covers mostly the late 19th century, but the early explorers, scouts, drivers, traders...
The word, Muskogee, did not appear in the colonial archives until just before the American Revolution. Mvskoke means “People who have herbs. ” Creek Indians were also known as Muskogee Creek . The Creek Indians are one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Cultural area is the Southeast United States. Linguistic group: Muskogean Federal Stat...
The Ponca The Ponca people[a] are a nation primarily located in the Great Plains of North America that share a common Ponca culture, history, and language, identified with two Indigenous nations: the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. Historically, the Ponca originated as a constituent part of a large nation situated along the Ohio River valley. This nation comp...
Ninnekah Cemetery is located in Ninnekah, Grady County, Oklahoma. The earliest burials are from about 1905. The cemetery is active at present. At the time of its founding, Ninnekah was located in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory. The name is from the Choctaw word, ninek, meaning "night" or "darkness." Today, many of Ninnekah's residents are non native.