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The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by Indigenous Jamaican born to the land who helped liberated Africans to set up communities in the mountains who were coming off of slave ships.
The Blue Dome Historic District in Tulsa, Oklahoma is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is a seventeen block area of commercial, industrial, and mixed-use buildings, as well as open spaces, just east of the downtown business area of Tulsa.
Portrait of Cherokee leader Cunne Shote (1762) by Francis Parsons. Gilcrease Museum, also known as the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, [1] is a museum northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma housing the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as a growing collection of art and artifacts from Central and South America.
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]
Located east of Oklahoma City in El Reno, the site is open to visitors Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A crowd watches The National Cavalry Competition at the Historic Fort Reno in ...
The Windward Maroons and those from the Cockpit Country resisted conquest in the First Maroon War (c. 1728 to 1740), which the colonial government ended in 1739–1740 by making treaties, to grant lands and to respect maroon autonomy, in exchange for peace and aiding the colonial militia if needed against external enemies.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black ...
Oklahoma City Museum of Art: Oklahoma City: Oklahoma: Central: Art: Collection includes American and European painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, photography, glass by Dale Chihuly, information: Oklahoma City National Memorial: Oklahoma City: Oklahoma: Central: History: Memorial and museum about the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19 ...