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Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal member, peace chief, and artist, Harvey Pratt. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are headquartered in Concho, Oklahoma. Of 12,185 enrolled tribal members, 8,664 live within the state of Oklahoma. The tribal jurisdictional area includes Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Kingfisher, Roger Mills, and Washita ...
“The tribes are trying to formulate a plan for everybody to get together and try to find a resolution,” said Reggie Wassana, governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Concho.
The Cheyenne left in 1897 to form their own agency at Concho. When the Arapaho reunited with them, they both occupied the Concho agency. The Darlington Agency site became the property of the State of Oklahoma after it was admitted to the Union in 1907. The Masons leased the site, and operated a boarding school and retirement home there until 1922.
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Tribune, (bi-monthly news publication for tribal citizens), El Reno, Oklahoma [22] Choctaw Community News (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians) Chickasaw Times, (official publication of the Chickasaw Nation), Ada, Oklahoma [23] Cokv Tvlvme (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) [5] Cokv Tvlvme (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) [5]
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The school buildings were transferred to the tribe by the BIA in 1985, potentially for use as business enterprises. [25]In 2014 artist Steven Grounds (Navajo-Euchee) started painting larger than life murals on the exterior walls to honor chiefs and leaders of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, including 19th-century Chief Black Kettle and Suzan Shown Harjo, who was awarded a Presidential Medal ...
Concho is an unincorporated community in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. [1] It is north of the Concho Indian Boarding School. The post office opened April 20, 1915. The ZIP code is 73022. The school and post office were named for Indian agent, Charles E. Shell. [2] It is the headquarters of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. [3]