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Muskogee (〔http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muskogee〕) is a city inside Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and home to Bacone College, and is 48 miles southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 39,223 as of the 2010 census, a 2.4 percent increase from 38,310 at the 2000 census,〔(CensusViewer: Muskogee, Oklahoma Population )〕 making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma. The 1951 film ''Jim Thorpe, All American,'' starring Burt Lancaster, was filmed on the campus of Bacone Indian College at Muskogee.〔("Tulsa World" - Jim Thorpe )〕 Two feature films were recently shot in Muskogee: ''Salvation'' (2007) and ''Denizen'' (2010).〔Brandon Griggs, "Woman of Steel", ''The Salt Lake Tribune, '' 8 January 2008, pp. E1-E2〕 ==History== (詳細はVerdigris River, north of present-day Muskogee. After the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians were one of the Five Civilized Tribes forced out of the American Southeast to Indian Territory. They were accompanied by their slaves to this area. The Indian Agency, a two-story stone building, was built here in Muskogee. It was a site for meetings among the leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes. Today it serves as a museum. At the top of what is known as Agency Hill, it is within Honor Heights Park on the west side of Muskogee. In 1872, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad was extended to the area. A federal court was established in Muskogee in 1889, around the same time that Congress opened portions of Indian Territory to non-Native settlers via land rushes. The city was incorporated on March 19, 1898.〔( Wallace F. Waits Jr., ""Muskogee," 'Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture' ). Accessed April 30, 2010〕 Ohio native Charles N. Haskell moved to the city in March 1901.〔( J. J. Compton,, "Haskell, Charles Nathaniel (1860-1933) )," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed April 30, 2010〕 He was instrumental in building on the land rush; he stimulated expansion of the town of more than 4,000 people to a center of business and industry by 1910, with a population of more than 25,000 inhabitants. Haskell built the first five-story business block in Oklahoma Territory; he built and owned fourteen brick buildings in the city. Most importantly, he organized and built most of the railroads running into the city, which connected it to other markets and centers of population, stimulating its business and retail, and attracting new residents. As Muskogee’s economic and business importance grew, so did its political power. In the years before the territory was admitted as a state, the Five Civilized Tribes continued to work on alternatives to keep some independence from European Americans. They met together August 21, 1905 to propose the State of Sequoyah, to be controlled by Native Americans. They met in Muskogee to draft its constitution, planning to have Muskogee serve as the State's capital. The proposal was vetoed by US President Theodore Roosevelt and mostly ignored by Congress; the proposed State of Sequoyah was never authorized. The US admitted the State of Oklahoma to the Union on November 16, 1907 as the 46th State. Muskogee attracted national and international attention when, in May 2008, voters elected John Tyler Hammons as mayor. Nineteen years old at the time of his election, Hammons is among the youngest mayors in American history. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muskogee, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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