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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Tahlequah is mentioned several times in Mark Twain's 1892 novel The American Claimant as the origin of a bank robber named One-Armed Pete. Tahlequah is visited by the main characters in "Westward of the Law" by Matt Braun. Tahlequah is the principal location in Larry McMurtry's "Zeke and Ned."
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.
In the United States, off-reservation trust land refers to real estate outside an Indian reservation that is held by the Interior Department for the benefit of a Native American tribe or a member of a tribe. Typical uses of off-reservation trust land include housing, agriculture or forestry, and community services such as health care and ...
In preparation for Oklahoma's admission to the union on an "equal footing with the original states" [6] by 1907, through a series of acts, including the Oklahoma Organic Act and the Oklahoma Enabling Act, Congress enacted a number of often contradictory statutes that often appeared as an attempt to unilaterally dissolve all sovereign tribal governments and reservations within the state of ...
On May 6, 1847, the post office was moved to Tahlequah. [6] The Cherokee Female Seminary was built here in 1849. [7] Park Hill was the center of culture for the Cherokees for many years, [6] and as such in 1940 the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Oklahoma erected a marker at Park Hill declaring it the "Center of Cherokee ...
Fort Gibson is a town in Cherokee and Muskogee counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The population was 3,814 as of the 2020 Census. [4] It is the location of Fort Gibson Historical Site and Fort Gibson National Cemetery and is located near the end of the Cherokees' Trail of Tears at Tahlequah.
Cherokee Nation Historic Courthouse in Tahlequah, built in 1849, is the oldest public building standing in the state of Oklahoma. The 1999 revision of the Cherokee Nation constitution The Cherokee Nation has legislative, executive and judicial branches with executive power vested in the Principal Chief , legislative power in the Tribal Council ...