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Spiro Mounds
is the only Native American archaeological site in
Oklahoma that is open to the public. Occupied from 850 to
1450, the mound and city complex was once the center of a
vast trade network that stretched from the
Gulf of California to the Gulf of Mexico and Virginia to
the Great Lakes.
John Eliot
was the creator of the first American-made Bible, written
in Algonquin, for which he personally created a written
language.
Five Civilized
Tribes
is a term that came into use during the
mid-nineteenth century to refer to the Cherokee, Choctaw,
Chicasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations because they seemed
to adopt "civilized ways" much more readily
than other tribes.
Trail of Tears
is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of
Native American nations from southeastern parts of the
United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The phrase originated from a description of the removal
of the Choctaw Nation in 1831, during which about 6,000
Choctaw died of disease, starvation, and hypothermia.
News and Pictures
from 1957
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SKC Films Library