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Personally I'd love to have a chance to learn more about the Five Civilized Tribes, ...
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Idabel is in Choctaw territory, if memory serves me correctly, so there's one of the five...
The Museum of the Five Civilized Tribes, in Muskogee, is marvelous. There is lots to see in Tulsa for a long weekend, a week, a month.

If anyone was wondering to what we refer, the Five Civilized Tribes were Native American tribes relocated by the US government to what is now Oklahoma. [1] They came from the Southeast, so it's fascinating for a Carolinian to see what happened at the other end of the well-named Trail of Tears.

Some of the Cherokee hid out in the hills [1] of NC/Tennessee, and became the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, which is most familiar to us in the East. And now I see that as we speak, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern band are having a rare joint council!

As Todd has pointed out, there are many links between Scots Americans and various of the five tribes. Here endeth the digression.

[1] I won't belabor the obvious historical parallels, OK?