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Chickasaw Plaza is a plaza along the Bricktown Canal in Bricktown, Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The plaza features a statue of a Chickasaw warrior, which was sponsored by the Chickasaw Nation, [1] as well as markers describing the tribe's history and land loss following the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears.
The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha IÌ yaakni) is a federally recognized Indigenous nation with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States.The Chickasaw Nation descends from an Indigenous population historically located in the southeastern United States, including present-day northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [1]
"Bromide Pavilion" built by Civilian Conservation Corps in Platt National Park. Photo made July 12, 2007. In 1902, Orville H. Platt, a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut, introduced legislation to establish the 640-acre Sulphur Springs Reservation, protecting 32 freshwater and mineral springs, in Murray County, Oklahoma (then part of Indian Territory).
McClain County is a county located in south central Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,662. [1] Its county seat is Purcell. [2] The county was named for Charles M. McClain, an Oklahoma constitutional convention attendee. [3] McClain County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK metropolitan statistical area.
The Chickasaw Nation, which runs "Chickasawcountry.com"., promotes the idea of Chickasaw Country as the 13 south-central Oklahoma counties that comprise the Chickasaw Nation, being the Tourism Department’s seven counties plus Coal, Bryan, Jefferson, Stephens, Grady, and McClain counties. [3] [4]
Of the nine projects pitched for Oklahoma City’s original 1993 MAPS program, the idea of building a “canal” in Bricktown came with little logic or reason in a town that previously stuck to a ...
In 2023, Will Rogers Courts received a $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant for comprehensive transformation of the public housing complex and surrounding neighborhoods.
Pontotoc County is a county in the south central part of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,065. [1] Its county seat is Ada. [2] 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.