Creek Nation Council Oak Park, 1750 South Cheyenne, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: Creek Nation Council Oak Park designates the site where the Locapoga clan of the Creek Indian Nation established their new home in Indian Territory in 1836. This was the first settlement of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Under a post oak, called the Council Oak, the leader of the Creek clan placed the ashes of their last council fires from their ancestral homelands in Alabama. Today, the site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is listed in the Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N11
Survey number: HALS OK-1
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76001576