Claremore Mound

The battle on this plaque was an attack on a village emptied of its fighters. In October 1817 about seven hundred Western Cherokee and allies, among them Choctaw, Chickasaw, Delaware and whites, struck the village of Claremore, Gra-mo'n or Arrow Going Home, leader of the Arkansas Band of the Osage (Wazhazhe), while he and most of his people were away hunting bison on the plains. Women, children and elderly men were in the village. About eighty Osage were killed, sixty-nine of them women and children; about a hundred were captured, and the village was burned. One attacker died.

What the plaque says

Claremore Mound Site of battle in "Strawberry Moon" 1817, when Chief Clermont's Osage village was wiped out by Cherokees. This Osage band from Missouri had settled near the mound at insistence of fur traders of St. Louis. Osages became the wealthiest Indians in Oklahoma by discovery of oil 100 yrs. later on reservation 2 miles west of mound. Oklahoma Historical Society 169-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Will Rogers Memorial Museum — 4.3 mi
  The limestone memorial and museum on the Claremore hilltop Will Rogers bought for his retirement, opened on his birthday in 1938 and holding his papers, his films and his tomb.
• Greenwood Rising — 25 mi
  The history center at Greenwood and Archer that tells how Tulsa's Black Wall Street was built, how white mobs burned it in 1921, and how its people rebuilt it.
• Philbrook Museum of Art — 26 mi
  Waite Phillips's 1927 Italian villa and its Villa Lante-inspired gardens, given to Tulsa in 1938 and open as an art museum since October 1939, strong in Native American art.
• Creek Nation Council Oak Park — 26 mi
  The oak on a south Tulsa hill where the Lochapoka Muscogee lit their fire in 1836 after removal from Alabama, the ceremonial ground from which Tulsa took its name.

More markers nearby

• Birthplace of Will Rogers — 4.9 mi
• Oklahoma's First Waterflood — 14 mi
• Cabin Creek Battlefield — 22 mi
• Battle of Chustenahlah — 24 mi