Story Map: Lost In Time-Our Choctaw Women

~From 1857 to 1907 Statehood~ The story of our First Ladies, is presented in a new format, using an interactive map and links to the original blogs about many of these women. Click the link below to see the Story Map format. Enjoy! >>>Story Map: Lost In Time-Our Choctaw Women

No Oklahoma for Chief Cole: 1878 Sees Last Impassioned Protest

For God sake, when we bought this coun­try, we did not buy white man with it. ~ Chief Cole to the US Senate, 1878 Historians describe Chief Coleman Cole in a variety of ways: a non-progressive, a born orator, an uneducated full-blood, a man with limited English. All of these descriptors fall incredibly short of …