Founded in 1801, Springplace was the first mission to the Cherokees and offered a formal educational institution to Cherokee students.

The Battle of Honey Springs was the largest battle of the Civil War in Indian Territory. Called “The Gettysburg of the West,” it was highly impactful on the war, west of the Mississippi River.

Many may not know Oklahoma was actually first proposed as two states – the state of Oklahoma and the all-Indian state of Sequoyah. Learn how the proposal was made and why it ultimately failed, and also how the people behind the Sequoyah statehood movement left a permanent mark on Oklahoma.

In 1843, Cherokee Principal Chief John Ross called a meeting of the Indian Nations that had been forcibly relocated to Indian Territory. It was the largest gathering of its kind, but firsthand documentation of the historic event was rare. In this Cherokee Almanac, we bring to light the first-hand account of a missionary who’s writing directly corresponds to a well-known painting of the event, as described here by Gilcrease Museum Curator of Art Laura Fry.

Learn about the significance of strawberries to Cherokee people and how they’re celebrated every year in the Cherokee Nation.

“Gold found,” reads a June, 1850 entry in Cherokee gold prospector John Lowery Brown’s journal. This was the first documentation of gold in present-day Colorado, and it was a group from the Cherokee Nation that discovered the mineral that led to the Colorado gold rush. Learn more about the Cherokee influence on the Colorado gold rush in this OsiyoTV Cherokee Almanac.