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Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
The headquarters of the Shawnee Tribe is Miami, Oklahoma. Currently, there are about 2,226 enrolled tribal members, with 1,070 of them living within the state of Oklahoma. [1] Ben Barnes is the current elected Chief. [2] [3] [4] Previously, Ron Sparkman was the elected chairman, serving a four-year term. [1] [5]
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes ... Tribe(s) State(s) ... Osage Reservation: Oklahoma: 47,472: ...
Map of Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas. Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area is a statistical entity identified and delineated by federally recognized American Indian tribes in Oklahoma as part of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Census and ongoing American Community Survey. [1]
The Shawnees of the "Mixed Band" became the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. [2] The Eastern Shawnee organized as a federally recognized tribe under the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. [2] In May 2019, the Eastern Shawnee ceremonial grounds flooded with three feet of water. Thirty families were evacuated, and "local roads stayed impassable for weeks."
WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday recognized about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe member's rape conviction because the ...
On June 7, 2024, on the site of the Shawnee town "Old Chillicothe" along U.S. 68 in Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, was opened the Great Council State Park with the help of the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: the Shawnee Tribe, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. [56]
Giving the land in Johnson County to the Shawnee Tribe “would almost be an insult,” another tribe says.