Entering Indian Territory

Historical marker location:

Quapaw, Oklahoma

( Marker is on State Highway 66, 0.1 miles south of Kansas State Line, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

This area was granted to the Quapaw tribe in 1833. Nearby, members of twenty other tribes received lands from the federal government.

During the Great Depression, thousands of farmers in Oklahoma were displaced from their land due to drought and dust storms. Many of these farmers migrated to California in search of work, a journey that became known as the "Okie migration."