Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.

As a synthesis of current knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context as no other book has done. Solidly grounded in scholarship and Native oral tradition, it provides general readers the unique story of each tribe, from the Alabama-Quassartes to the Yuchis. Each entry contains a complete statistical and narrative summary of the tribe, encompassing everything from origin tales and archaeological research to contemporary ceremonies and tribal businesses. The entries also include tribal websites and suggested readings, along with photographs depicting prominent tribal personages, visitor sites, and accomplishments.

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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.

As a synthesis of current knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context as no other book has done. Solidly grounded in scholarship and Native oral tradition, it provides general readers the unique story of each tribe, from the Alabama-Quassartes to the Yuchis. Each entry contains a complete statistical and narrative summary of the tribe, encompassing everything from origin tales and archaeological research to contemporary ceremonies and tribal businesses. The entries also include tribal websites and suggested readings, along with photographs depicting prominent tribal personages, visitor sites, and accomplishments.

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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide

by Carter Blue Clark
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide

by Carter Blue Clark

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Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.

As a synthesis of current knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context as no other book has done. Solidly grounded in scholarship and Native oral tradition, it provides general readers the unique story of each tribe, from the Alabama-Quassartes to the Yuchis. Each entry contains a complete statistical and narrative summary of the tribe, encompassing everything from origin tales and archaeological research to contemporary ceremonies and tribal businesses. The entries also include tribal websites and suggested readings, along with photographs depicting prominent tribal personages, visitor sites, and accomplishments.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780806140612
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 03/15/2013
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series , #261
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 434
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Blue Clark holds the David Pendleton Chair in American Indian Studies and is Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University. An enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and an active supporter of American Indian cultural institutions, he is the author of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century.

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Introduction 3

Alabama-Quassarte 23

Apache (Plains Apache) 27

Arapaho 33

Caddo 43

Cayuga 55

Cherokee 61

Cheyenne 79

Chickasaw 93

Choctaw 107

Comanche 121

Delaware Nation (Western Delaware) 133

Delaware Tribe of Indians (Eastern Delaware) 139

Fort Sill Apache 151

Iowa 159

Kansa/Kaw 165

Kialegee 173

Kickapoo 177

Kiowa 183

Miami 193

Modoc 203

Muscogee (Creek) 209

Natchez 223

Nez Perce 229

Osage 233

Otoe-Missouria 247

Ottawa 255

Pawnee 263

Peoria 271

Ponca 279

Citizen Potawatomi 289

Quapaw 301

Sac and Fox 313

Seminole 323

Seneca-Cayuga 337

Absentee Shawnee 345

Eastern Shawnee 355

Shawnee Tribe (Loyal Shawnee) 359

Thlopthlocco 363

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 367

Wichita 371

Wyandotte 383

Yuchi/Euchee 391

Index 399

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