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 | Native AmericaOklahoma has the largest Native American population of any state in the United States. Sixty-seven Native American tribes are represented in Oklahoma, twenty-five Native American languages are spoken, the highest number of tribal headquarters, and thirty-nine federally recognized nations. Southwest Oklahoma is home to many of the plains tribes: Comanche, Apache, Ft. Sill Apache, Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, and others. |
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Recreation restores, refreshes, and creates anew our bodies, minds, and spirits. Southwest Oklahomans love to recreate and demonstrate this through a huge variety of both indoor and outdoor activities. |
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 | AgricultureSouthwest Oklahoma isn't anything if it isn't agricultural. The fertile grassland and deep topsoil yielded itself readily to the settler's plow. At the turn of the 20th Century, much of Southwest Oklahoma was divided into "sections" equaling one square mile, containing 640 acres. Each section was further divided into "quarter sections", each holding 160 acres. Every person whose name was drawn in the lottery of 1901, received a "quarter" which became known as a "homestead". Those homesteads became farms that provided everything the farmer's family needed to live and exist. |
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 | Medicine ParkMedicine Park is located at the main entry to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the second most visited wildlife refuge in the country - hosting more than 1.5 million annual visitors. The community has a rich and colorful history. Originally founded on July 4th, 1908 by Oklahoma Senator Elmer Thomas, Medicine Park was Oklahoma’s first planned tourism resort.
The pages of the Town’s colorful history are filled with the likes of Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Frank Phillips, Bob Wills, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Lil Hardin, Colonel Jack Abernathy, Les Brown, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and countless others.
The Medicine Park “spirit” is a special blend of the Native American belief in the healing powers of the waters of Medicine Creek and the use of rounded cobblestones in almost all early-day structures. This construction material is unique in Oklahoma, and is found in only a few other places in the country. |
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