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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Official Website According to archaeological studies, this area was inhabited by Caddoan Mound Builders during 300 to 1200 AD. The western area of Wagoner County was settled by the Creek after their forced removal in Alabama in the 1820s. The eastern portion of the county was settled by the Cherokee. During the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osage County, Oklahoma. Official Website Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, the county is named for and is home to the federally recognized Osage Nation. The county is coextensive with the Osage Nation Reservation, established by treaty in the 19th century when the Osage relocated there from Kansas. Adjacent Co...
This project is part of the State of Oklahoma Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Oklahoma. You can add profiles for:* People born in Oklahoma* People who lived in Oklahoma* People who died in OklahomaWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have projects rel...
This cemetery is located on 9th and Parkinson, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Find a Grave OK Cemeteries
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Blaine County, Oklahoma. Blaine County was one of several counties created by the Land Run of 1892. It was designated as county "C" beginning in 1890 before the land run. According to one account, the designation "C" remained until the first public elections in 1892. When the time came to choose another name for the county, there see...
Wikipedia The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. As of 2007 the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its main campus in Norman. Employing nearly 3,000 faculty members, the s...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Oklahoma. The Osage ceded their land claims in 1825, and the Federal Government allowed the Western Cherokee to settle in this area in 1828. The 1835 Treaty of New Echota confirmed Cherokee ownership of the land. The area now covered by Washington County was part of the Cherokee Saline District between 1840 and 185...
The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Official Website Oklahoma City is the county seat of Oklahoma County. It is often just called "OKC" and is located in the Great Plains region of the US. Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are its economy's largest secto...
People of the Great Swamp The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Official Website The county was created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory. It was named for the Comanche tribal nation. Built on former reservation lands of the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache in Indian Territory, Comanche County was open for settlement on August 16, 1901 by lottery. The region has three ...
Overview The Osage people are one of the Native American tribes of Oklahoma. See The project will cover the various families that make up the Osage Nation. Interesting Stories Notable Osage Scott BigHorse, Osage Assistant Principal Chief, elected to the Oklahoma House; served (2006-2008). Louis F. Burns (1920-2012), historian and author, considered a leading expert on Osage history, cus...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Official Website History Originally occupied by the Quapaw tribe, the Quapaw ceded the area to the U.S. Government soon after the Louisiana Purchase in 1818. During the late 1820s and 1830s, the area was given to the Creek and Seminole tribes after their forced removal from the southeastern United State...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Official Website The county was established in 1890 and was originally called County Two. It was originally inhabited by members of the indigenous nations of the Southern Plains, but by the 1830s the land would become part of the territory assigned to the Seminoles and Creeks after their removal from thei...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Noble County, Oklahoma.= Official Website =The present county was part of the Cherokee Outlet in Indian Territory until Oklahoma Territory was created in 1890, and the land was designated as County P. After the U. S. government opened the area to non-Indian settlement in 1893. It was renamed Noble County for John Willock Noble, then t...
Wikipedia =Northeastern State University (NSU) is a public university with its main campus located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States, at the foot of the Ozark Mountains. The university also has two other campuses in Muskogee and Broken Arrow as well as online. Northeastern is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma as well as one of the oldest institutions of high...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Craig County, Oklahoma. In the early 1800s, this area was part of the hunting grounds of the Osage nation and other Plains tribes, some of whom had migrated west from other areas. Members of the Cherokee Nation began moving into the area during the 1830s, particularly after Indian Removal by the US government, which forced them on th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. The county was created at statehood from part of the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory. It was named for a historic Chickasaw tribal area in Mississippi. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Pontotoc is usually translated "cattail prairie" or "land of hanging grapes." Adjacent...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation signed the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820, ceding part of their ancestral home in the Southeastern U. S. and receiving a large tract in Indian Territory. They signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830, which ceded the remainder of their original homeland. Most of the remainder of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Johnston County, Oklahoma. Official Website In 1820, the U.S. government granted the land now known as Johnston County to the Choctaw tribe. Many of the Choctaws began moving to the new land in Indian Territory in 1830. The rest followed the Chickasaw tribe. The Chickasaw were closely related to the Choctaw, being formally separated...
This cemetery, established in 1951, is located on 3400 North Midwest Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Find a Grave Roots Web
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hughes County, Oklahoma. The area now occupied by Hughes County was part of Indian Territory in the 19th Century. The Creeks settled in the northern part, which fell within the Wewoka District of the Creek Nation, while the Choctaws settled in the southern half. In 1834, Camp Holmes was established and used as a base for the Dodge-Le...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Official Website The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, states that the county was created from the Tahlequah District of the Cherokee Nation in 1906. The Cherokee moved to this area as a result of the forced relocation brought about by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, also known as Trail Of Tea...
This cemetery is located on 13th Avenue, Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma. Find a Grave OK Cemeteries