Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town is a federally recognized tribe and a traditional township of Muscogee Creek Indians in Oklahoma. Thlopthlocco Tribal Town is headquartered in Okemah and Clearview, Oklahoma. Tribal jurisdiction is within Creek, Hughes, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Seminole, Tulsa, and Wagoner counties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thlopthlocco_Tribal_Town
Thlopthlocco is one of the central core of Mvskoke-speaking towns that were the original members of the Creek Confederacy in Georgia and Alabama. Sometime before 1832 Thlopthlocco split off from a large tribal town and was removed to Indian Territory with the rest of the Mvskoke Creeks in 1835. They ultimately settled in an area eight miles south of Okemah, in Okfuskee and Hughes counties. Like other Creeks, they lost most of their land with the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 and the subsequent assignment of small individual allotments to each family.
Thlopthlocco was offered its own federal charter, separate from that of the Creek Nation, in 1936. The motive of the town in accepting this charter and its implicit separation from Creek Nation was to take advantage of the credit available through the Thomas-Rogers Act, also known as the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. This legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1936, just after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, and was directed at the special situation of Indian tribes in Oklahoma.
In 1938, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town ratified its constitution and bylaws under the provisions of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, and ratified its federal charter of incorporation in 1939. In 1941 the Secretary of the Interior placed 1900 acres of land in trust for the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town for its exclusive use and benefit.
The Thlopthlocco citizens are hardworking and business-oriented, and very anxious to begin new economic ventures. The tribal town has recently opened a cabinet shop at its headquarters near Okemah and is making plans to develop twenty-five hundred acres of trust land held by the town. The Town is governed by a Business Committee consisting of five elected officers and a five-person advisory council appointed by the officers. The Business Committee is empowered to transact business on behalf of the Town. Among the corporate purposes and powers of the Town is the authority to acquire real property for the Town.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TH004
Ryan Marrow (Town King)
Tel: (918) 560-6198
Fax: (918) 560-6196
PO Box 188
Okemah, OK74859-0188
Website: http://www.tttown.org
Thlopthlocco is one of the central core of Mvskoke-speaking towns that were the original members of the Creek Confederacy in Georgia and Alabama. Sometime before 1832 Thlopthlocco split off from a large tribal town and was removed to Indian Territory with the rest of the Mvskoke Creeks in 1835. They ultimately settled in an area eight miles south of Okemah, in Okfuskee and Hughes counties. Like other Creeks, they lost most of their land with the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 and the subsequent assignment of small individual allotments to each family.
Thlopthlocco was offered its own federal charter, separate from that of the Creek Nation, in 1936. The motive of the town in accepting this charter and its implicit separation from Creek Nation was to take advantage of the credit available through the Thomas-Rogers Act, also known as the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. This legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1936, just after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, and was directed at the special situation of Indian tribes in Oklahoma.
In 1938, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town ratified its constitution and bylaws under the provisions of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, and ratified its federal charter of incorporation in 1939. In 1941 the Secretary of the Interior placed 1900 acres of land in trust for the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town for its exclusive use and benefit.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TH004
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town is a federally recognized tribe and a traditional township of Muscogee Creek Indians in Oklahoma, headquartered in Okemah and Clearview, Oklahoma. Tribal jurisdiction is within Creek, Hughes, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Seminole, Tulsa, and Wagoner counties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thlopthlocco_Tribal_Town
PO Box 188
Okemah, OK74859-0188
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town’s native language is Mvskoke, also called Creek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thlopthlocco_Tribal_Town
Current Info:
Currently the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town has approximately 845 members. The Thlopthlocco members are hardworking and business-oriented, and very anxious to begin new economic ventures. Presently the Town owns 2,330 acres of land in Okfuskee and Hughes Counties, Oklahoma, consisting of trust land off Interstate-40. The Town is governed by a Business Committee consisting of five elected officers and a five-person advisory council appointed by the officers. The Business Committee is empowered to transact business on behalf of the Town. Among the corporate purposes and powers of the Town is the authority to acquire real property for the Town.
http://tttown.org/
Ryan Marrow (Town King)
Tel: (918) 560-6198
Fax: (918) 560-6196
PO Box 188
Okemah, OK74859-0188
Website: http://www.tttown.org
