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Under a federal cooperative program begun in 1947 between the Government of Oklahoma and the United States Department of the Interior, plans were made to create a museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma, to present works by the tribal members of the Southern Plains who lived in Oklahoma. [1] Costing $50,000, the museum officially opened on December 2 ...
Kiowa Tribe, official website; Kiowa, Oklahoma Historical Society; Kiowa Drawings, National Museum of Natural History; 1901 U.S. Government Map, Oklahoma Digital Map Collection; 2019 Map of area, OpenStreetMap; Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers Archived 2015-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, Newberry Library; Kiowa Comanche Apache Indian Lands
The citizens of Anadarko founded the museum in 1954. The museum is located on the site of a massacre of the Tonkawa Indians during American Civil War by Shawnees and other tribes. The land was formerly occupied by the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Reservation.
He was a member of the Black Legging Warrior Society of the Kiowa tribe and advocated for the recognition of native heritage. [9] He was the father of Jon and Barry Belindo, both artists in their own right. A 2006 exhibit at the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma featured the work of Belindo and
In a ceremony held on November 12, 1954, Peters was adopted into the Kiowa tribe [20] and given the Kiowa name Kom-tah-gya. [2] That same year, [ 32 ] she was honored by the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians , when the Susan Peters Gallery was established in Anadarko .
Five of the artists attended the St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, serving Kiowa, Comanche and Apache children. Operating from 1872 to 1996, the school, also known as the Anadarko Boarding School, was the longest surviving of the seven schools for Native American children in Oklahoma operated by St. Patrick's Mission. [10]
Home of Governor Robert S. Kerr, proposed museum, [50] formerly operated as the Robert S. Kerr Conference Center & Museum Kiowa County Historical Museum: Hobart: Kiowa: Southwestern Oklahoma: Local history: Operated by the Kiowa County Historical Society in a historic depot [51] [52] Kiowa Tribal Museum: Carnegie: Caddo: Southwestern Oklahoma ...
Anadarko, the self-titled "Indian Capital of the Nation." It is the capital of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, the Delaware Nation and the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. The city houses the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians. Anadarko is named after the Nadaco, a Caddo band now affiliated with the Caddo Nation.