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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 ...
Reconstructed dwellings represent many of the tribes from the Southwest and Southern Plains, including Caddo, Southern Cheyenne, Wichita, Pawnee, Navajo, and Apache. 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
Anadarko is a city in and the county seat of Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The city is 50 miles (80.5 km) southwest of Oklahoma City . The population was 5,745 at the 2020 census.
Nearby is the Southern Plains Indian Museum, the American Indian Hall of Fame, and Indian City USA. No expositions were held in 1942-45 nor 2020-21. Miss American Indian Exposition
Also in Anadarko is the Southern Plains Indian Museum, which features highly-skilled arts and crafts of contemporary and historic artists from both the local Plains tribes, as well as other American Indians relocated to present-day Oklahoma in the 19th century, such as the Delaware, Caddo, Southeastern Woodlands tribes, and others. The museum ...
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
Louise "Lois" Smoky was born in 1907 near Anadarko, Oklahoma. [3] Bougetah was her Kiowa name, meaning "Of the Dawn." Her mother was Maggie Aukoy Smokey (1869–1963), and her father was Enoch Smokey (1880–1969), the great-nephew of Kiowa chief Appiatan. [2]
Alice Jones was born on February 8, 1910, in the Old Town district of Anadarko, Oklahoma, to To-haddle-mah (English name: Anna Konad) and Tommy Jones. [1] [2] [3] She was the second child in a family of three other siblings: Mary Hummingbird (b. 1907), Iva Jones (1912–1914), [4] and Vernon S. Keahbone (b. 1919). [5]