Tulsa

Tulsa lies beside the Arkansas River, where prairie and wooded river bottoms meet. The region formed part of the homelands and hunting country of several Indigenous peoples, including the Osage. In 1836 the Lochapoka, a Muscogee community forced to leave Alabama, arrived on the Arkansas after a difficult journey. They chose a hill overlooking the river for their ceremonial ground, placing ashes from their former fires beneath a great oak as they established their town.