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Choctaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,204. [1] Its county seat is Hugo. [2]Formerly part of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory, this county was reorganized and redefined in 1907, at the time of Oklahoma statehood.
The Boswell area was one of the Choctaw Nation's first and most important settlements. A Presbyterian missionary station was founded at Mayhew, Indian Territory, three miles north of present-day Boswell in the 1840s. It soon became a government center as well as seat of civilization.
The Choctaw Capitol Building (Choctaw: Chuka Hanta Chahta; also known as Tuskahoma – Choctaw Council House, or simply as Tuskahoma, [2]) is a historic building built in 1884 that housed the government of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma from 1884 to 1907.
The glass mosaic "Gifts of Past and Present," by Oklahoma Choctaw artist Lauretta Newby-Coker, is on view at the Choctaw Cultural Center in Calera, near Durant, on Nov. 3, 2023.
Hugo is located at the center of Choctaw County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 6.42 square miles (16.64 km 2 ), of which 6.40 square miles (16.58 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06 km 2 ), or 0.36%, is water. [ 4 ]
Choctaw Nation Tribal Services Center in Hugo, Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation is the first indigenous tribe in the United States to build its own hospital with its own funding. [41] The Choctaw Nation Health Care Center, located in Talihina, is a 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m 2) health facility with 37 hospital beds for inpatient care and 52 exam ...
The state of Oklahoma historically had civil townships.On August 5, 1913, voters passed the Oklahoma Township Amendment, also known as State Question 58. [1] This allowed the creation or abolishment of townships on a county by county basis; by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to abolish them. [2]
Aug. 25—Choctaw Nation Prosecutor Kara Bacon said an advocacy center operated by the southeast Oklahoma tribal nation is an answer to a challenge given by a Lakota Chief more than a hundred ...