Spirit Trail Traditional Cache
sore feet & bad knees: I moving this cache to higher ground.
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This trail is located right before the entrance to Sequoyah Bay State Park on Ft. Gibson Lake. It is an established trail with information signs along the way about the Five Civilized Tribes. Turn right at the sign of the Oklahoma flag to go towards the cache.
The trail would be rated easy and it is about 1 mile in length. The cache is hidden about .2 of mile down the trail.
The container is a small camoed PB jar. The cache is hidden a few feet off the trail. It will hold small items, TB, and geocoins. Make sure to bring a pencil/pen to sign the log.
Five Civilized Tribes
Term used by European settlers to describe the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Seminole peoples of the southeast USA. They were considered ‘civilized’ because they farmed in settled towns, established a democratic form of government, and had adopted many European customs, including European dress. Some even grew cotton and became slave owners. The Cherokee also built roads, schools, and churches, and published a newspaper using their own alphabet. The Five Civilized Tribes were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory, beginning in 1838.
In 1893, in preparation for Oklahoma statehood, the Dawes Commission was set up to arrange the allotment of reservation lands to individual members of the Five Civilized Tribes and oversee the dissolution of their tribal governments. The names of those eligible for land were listed by ethnic group on the Final Rolls drawn up in 1906. Today, membership of a group is dependent on being descended from someone whose name appears on the Final Rolls.
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