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After leaving Tennessee, Sam Houston owned a trading post in the area; he later moved to Texas. At a bitterly contentious meeting at Fort Gibson in 1836, the majority faction of the Muscogee (Creek) reluctantly accepted the existing tribal government under the leadership of Chilly McIntosh, son of William McIntosh, and his faction.
The museum originated with the Da-Co-Tah Indian Club, which began campaigning in September 1951 to use the Union Indian Agency building to house a local museum. [1] In 1954, the club sponsored legislation, H.R. Bill No. 8983 by U.S. Representative Ed Edmondson, that petitioned the return of the building to the municipal government of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
This list of museums in Oklahoma encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Muskogee was an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns (1932, 1947–1949), Cincinnati Reds (1937–1939), Chicago Cubs (1941), Detroit Tigers (1946) and New York Giants (1936, 1951–1957). [50] Muskogee teams played at Traction Park from 1905 to 1911. Muskogee then played at Owen Field, which was later renamed to League Park and finally Athletic Park.
In 1961, the building was designated as a National Historic Landmark. By 1979, tribal sovereignty had been fully renewed and the Muscogee adopted a new constitution. The Creek Council House underwent a full restoration in 1989–1992 and reopened as a museum operated by the City of Okmulgee and the Creek Indian Memorial Association.
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 historic Muskogee school, founded in 1880, is considered a landmark institution. But its next chapter is in peril. Historic Bacone College taught generations of Native students.
The Three Rivers Museum was established in Muskogee in 1989 as the dream of local historian Dorothy Ball, chairman at that time of the Muskogee Historic Preservation Commission. [4] The main building of the museum, the formerly-abandoned Midland Valley Railroad Depot, was obtained in 1998 with federal grant funds. [4]