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Native American Heritage Month

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STATE AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

OKLAHOMA'S TRIBES

Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town

Absentee Shawnee Tribe

Caddo Nation

Cherokee Nation

Chickasaw Nation

Choctaw Nation

Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Comanche Nation

Delaware Nation

Delaware Tribe of Indians

Eastern Shawnee Tribe

Fort Sill Apache Tribe

Iowa Tribe

Kaw Nation

Kickapoo Tribe

Kiowa Tribe

Miami Tribe

Muscogee (Creek)

Osage Nation

Otoe-Missouria Tribe

Ottawa Tribe

Pawnee Nation

Peoria Tribe of Indians

Ponca Nation

Quapaw Tribe

Sac & Fox Nation

Seminole Nation

Seneca-Cayuga Tribe

Shawnee Tribe

Tonkawa Tribe

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees

Wichita & Affiliated Tribes

Wyandotte Nation

(Source: Oklahoma Department of Libraries)

Native American Heritage Month is observed in November to call attention to the culture, traditions, and achievements of the nation’s original inhabitants and of their descendants. The official designation of November as National Native American Heritage Month was signed into law in 1990.

Eastern Oklahoma Library System (EOLS) libraries are all located in one of two reservations in the state of Oklahoma: Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Adair County’s John F. Henderson Public Library and Stilwell Public Library, Cherokee County’s Hulbert Community Library and Tahlequah Public Library, and Delaware County’s Grove Public Library, Kansas Public Library and Delaware County Library, and Sequoyah County’s Muldrow Public Library and Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library in Sallisaw, and Muskogee County’s Warner Public Library are all located in Cherokee Nation.

Muskogee County’s Rieger Memorial Library in Haskell, Q.B. Boydstun Library in Fort Gibson and Muskogee Public Library, McIntosh County’s Eufaula Memorial Library and Jim Lucas Checotah Public Library are located in Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

MAP OF EOLS LIBRARIES