Green Corn Dance

Historical marker location:

800 W Forrest Ave, Eufaula, Oklahoma

( Marker is on Forest Avenue west of South 6th Street when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1966

To the Creeks, the Green Corn dance was a major annual religious celebration of the harvest season. Around a central fire, men, women, and children dressed in colorful costumes, danced, chanted, and sang. After the rites, green corn was served.

The state song of Oklahoma, "Oklahoma!", was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for their Broadway musical of the same name. The musical, which premiered in 1943, was set in Oklahoma territory in the early 1900s and tells the story of a young farm girl and her romance with a cowboy.