Historical Marker
Pawnee Agency
Historical marker location:
Pawnee, Oklahoma
( Marker is on U.S. 64, ΒΌ mile west of Pawnee Bill Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1995
Established in 1874, the agency supervised the Pawnee Indians who sold their lands in Nebraska and bought a reservation in present-day Pawnee County. The unallotted surplus lands of the Pawnee Reservation were opened to settlement in September 1893.
The first land run in Oklahoma took place on April 22, 1889, when more than 50,000 people rushed to claim free land in the Unassigned Lands, which had been opened up for settlement by the federal government.