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Oklahoma City


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Oklahoma City

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Settled by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek & Seminole who were survivors of long death march from the east; was given to Native Americans as a reservation in 1880s, but was then opened to 10,000 homesteaders in 1889.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Joe Goode (American, born 1937)

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