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Stilwell / ᏍᏗᎳᏪᎵ is a city located in the sovereign territory of the Cherokee Nation. [4] It is also the county seat of Adair County, Oklahoma. [5] The population was 3,700 as of the 2020 U.S. census, a decline of 6.7 percent from the 3,949 population recorded in 2010. [6]
Adair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,495. [1] Its county seat is Stilwell. [2] Adair County was named after the Adair family of the Cherokee tribe. [3] One source says that the county was specifically named for Watt Adair, one of the first Cherokees to settle in the area. [4]
Stilwell/Cherokee Nation Airport (FAA LID: O11) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Stilwell, in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by the Cherokee Nation .
Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell and Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. stressed strengthening state-tribal relations.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller was born on November 18, 1945, in the Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to Clara Irene (née Sitton) and Charley Mankiller. [4] [5] Her father was a full-blooded Cherokee, [4] [6] whose ancestors had been forced to relocate to Indian Territory from Tennessee over the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.
This category is for towns founded by Cherokee people in Oklahoma. It includes cities founded by a prominent Cherokee person or settled by Cherokee people of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) prior to Oklahoma statehood.
The Cookson Hills are in eastern Oklahoma. They are an extension of the Boston Mountains of Arkansas to the east and the southwestern margin of the Ozark Plateau. They lie generally between Stilwell, Sallisaw and Tahlequah. The area became part of the Cherokee Nation in the early 20th century until 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. [1]
On July 9, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (and by extension the Cherokee Nation) had never been disestablished in the years before allotment and Oklahoma Statehood. The Cherokee Nation consisted of the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ —pronounced Tsalagi or Cha-la-gee) people of the Qualla Boundary and the ...