Entering Indian Territory - Quapaw, OK
N 36° 59.812 W 094° 44.441
15S E 345108 N 4095940
Oklahoma Historical Marker, just south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border along US69A, noting that "Indian Territory" was established here in 1833 ... from lands that the Quapaw Tribe owned and got to share.
Waymark Code: WMMFKE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2014
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This granite marker stands on the west side of the highway, just south of the border, and has the following text:
In 1833, this area ceded Quapaw Tribe by U.S. Lands near granted Indians of 20 tribes including Seneca, Shawnee, Peoria, Miami, Ottawa, Wyandot. Wealth came to the Quapaw and to other Indians here, from discovery of rich lead and zinc mines beginning 1905.
Oklahoma Historical Society
164-1995
Manufactured by
Willis Granite Products
Granite, Oklahoma
County: Ottawa
Record Address::
1220 Hwy 66
Quapaw, OK USA
74363
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Date Erected: 1995
Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society
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