Sasakwa

Sasakwa is the Seminole word for wild goose; its post office opened on January 14, 1880, at this first site two miles west of today's town. The Methodists' Sasakwa Female Academy ran here from 1880 to 1892. Brown had opposed allotment, yet he negotiated the Seminole agreement with the Dawes Commission in 1897 and was a delegate to the Sequoyah Convention for separate Indian statehood in 1905. In August 1917 hundreds of men met at a farm near Sasakwa to protest the World War I draft, the gathering remembered as the Green Corn Rebellion.

What the plaque says

Sasakwa Original Site Home of Gov. John F. Brown, for 34 yrs. Principal Chief, Seminole Nation, succeeding his father-in- law, Chief John Jumper, Col. 1st Regt. Seminole Mtd. Vols., Con- federate Army in Civil War. Young Brown was Lieut., 1st Regt. Creek Mtd. Vols., C. S. A. Each in turn was pastor of Spring Church, near here, founded 1850 by Baptists. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1949

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Seminole Nation Museum — 15 mi
  A community museum in Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, telling the Seminole story from Florida to Indian Territory and the town that John Horse's people founded in 1849.
• Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center — 31 mi
  The Citizen Potawatomi Nation's national museum and archive in Shawnee, telling a Great Lakes people's road through Kansas to Indian Territory in the Nation's own words and objects.

More markers nearby

• Osage Village — 8.9 mi
• Edwards's Post — 12 mi
• Founding of Ada, "Queen City of the Chickasaw Nation" — 14 mi
• Lima — 16 mi