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Okemah is a city in, and the county seat of, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is the birthplace of folk music legend Woody Guthrie. Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, a federally recognized Muscogee Indian tribe, is headquartered in Okemah. The population was 3,223 at the 2010 census, a 6.1 percent increase from 3,038 in 2000. About 26.6 percent of the residents identified themselves as Native American.〔(CensusViewer:Okemah, Oklahoma Population )〕 ==History== Historically occupied by the Osage and Quapaw, who ceded their lands to the United States by 1825, after Indian Removal of tribes from the Southeast United States in the 1830s, this area was assigned to the Creek Nation and specifically, the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town. Okemah was named after a Kickapoo Indian chief named Chief ''Okemah''. In March 1902, Chief ''Okemah'' built a bark house in his tribe's traditional fashion. He had come to await the opening of the townsite which took his name April 22, 1902. In the Kickapoo language, ''okemah'' means "things up high," such as highly placed person or town or high ground. Okemah had the chief's name to live up to in leadership. In preparation for Oklahoma's being admitted as a state, the Dawes Commission was authorized in 1896 to work with the Five Civilized Tribes to enroll their members for allotments of tribal land to individual households. Registration of tribal members lasted from 1898-1906. After allotment, the government was going to declare as "surplus" the remaining tribal lands, and sell them to European-American settlers. Okemah was platted by a group of Shawnee residents in March 1902 on land belonging to Mahala and Nocus Fixico, full-blood Creek. The Fixicos had no legal right at the time to sell their holding, as enrollment of tribal members on the Dawes Roll continued until 1906, and no land sales were to take place by Indians until it was completed. That did not appear to affect the promoters or the development of the town. A post office opened in Okemah on May 16, 1902.〔Price, Carolyn S. Burnett. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Okemah." Retrieved February 9, 2013.()〕 On April 22, 1902 the formal opening launched the town. It was incorporated in 1903. In the spring of 1904, Commission restrictions on the sale of townsite lots were removed. The Department of the Interior trustees of land held by American Indians paid the Fixicos $50 an acre for their land, and gave legal deeds to the purchasers who claimed title. In the town's first week, the following stores were established: four general merchandise, two hardware, one 5 & 10 cent store, three drug stores, four grocery stores, three wagon yards, four lumber yards, three cafes, one bakery, two millinery stores, four livery barns, three blacksmiths, two dairies, two cotton gins and two weekly newspapers. Eight doctors settled there, four lawyers, two walnut log buyers, and one Chinese laundryman. Two hotels were quickly put up, including the three-story Broadway hotel which set the city apart as an important town in early-day Oklahoma. Okfuskee County had been organized at the time of statehood in 1907. Okemah was chosen as county seat in a county election held August 27, 1908. 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「Okemah, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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