Oklahoma itself is named from two words in the Choctaw Indian language; “Okla” meaning people and “humma” meaning red, literally meaning red people. There are descendants of sixty-seven tribes living in the state.
We stopped off in Pryor or Pryor Creek as it is officially called. Nathaniel Pryor, great grandnephew of Pocahontas, and a scout with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, married an Osage Indian and set up a trading post near what is now the City of Pryor, Oklahoma
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